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Title 21 — Food and Drugs

Part A · Chapter 9 — Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

§ 379d. Automation of Food and Drug Administration

Statutory text

(a)

In general

The Secretary, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, shall automate appropriate activities of the Food and Drug Administration to ensure timely review of activities regulated under this chapter.

(b)

Authorization of appropriations

There are authorized to be appropriated each fiscal year such sums as are necessary to carry out this section.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act

    Pub. L. 101–635 title IV § 401 · 104 Stat. 4583

    Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 379d

    June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 711, formerly § 712, as added Pub. L. 101–635, title IV, § 401, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4585

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 711, formerly § 712, as added Pub. L. 101–635, title IV, § 401, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4585

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 401. AUTOMATION OF FDA. Chapter VII (21 U.S.C. 371 et seq.) (as amended by sections 101 and 201 of this Act) is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: “SEC. 712. AUTOMATION OF FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION. “(a) In General.— The Secretary, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, shall automate appropriate activities of the Food and Drug Administration to ensure timely review of activities regulated under this Act. “(b) Authorization of Appropriations.— There are authorized to be appropriated each fiscal year such sums as are necessary to carry out this section.”.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 711 of act , was renumbered section 731 by Pub. L. 102–571 and is classified to section 379f of this title.

Credits

1938–1992 · 2 acts
  1. 1938June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 711, formerly § 712, as added Pub. L. 101–635, title IV, § 401, , 104 Stat. 4585
  2. 1992renumbered § 711, Pub. L. 102–571, title I, § 106(3), , 106 Stat. 4498.
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(June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 711, formerly § 712, as added Pub. L. 101–635, title IV, § 401, , 104 Stat. 4585; renumbered § 711, Pub. L. 102–571, title I, § 106(3), , 106 Stat. 4498.)

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