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Title 21 — Food and Drugs

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

§ 379k. Information system

Statutory text

The Secretary shall establish and maintain an information system to track the status and progress of each application or submission (including a petition, notification, or other similar form of request) submitted to the Food and Drug Administration requesting agency action.

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 Modernization Act of 1997

    Pub. L. 105–115 title IV § 407(a) · 111 Stat. 2296

    Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 379k

    June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 745, formerly § 741, as added Pub. L. 105–115, title IV, § 407(a), Nov. 21, 1997, 111 Stat. 2370

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 745, formerly § 741, as added Pub. L. 105–115, title IV, § 407(a), Nov. 21, 1997, 111 Stat. 2370

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (a) Amendment.— Chapter VII (21 U.S.C. 371 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: “Subchapter D— Information and Education “SEC. 741. INFORMATION SYSTEM. “The Secretary shall establish and maintain an information system to track the status and progress of each application or submission (including a petition, notification, or other similar form of request) submitted to the Food and Drug Administration requesting agency action.”.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective 90 days after , except as otherwise provided, see section 501 of Pub. L. 105–115, set out as an Effective Date of 1997 Amendment note under section 321 of this title.

Report on Status of System

Pub. L. 105–115, title IV, § 407(b), , 111 Stat. 2370, provided that not later than 1 year after , Secretary of Health and Human Services was to submit report to Congress on status of system to be established under this section, including projected costs of system and concerns about confidentiality.

Credits

1938–2008 · 2 acts
  1. 1938June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 745, formerly § 741, as added Pub. L. 105–115, title IV, § 407(a), , 111 Stat. 2370
  2. 2008renumbered § 745, Pub. L. 110–316, title II, § 202(a), , 122 Stat. 3515.
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(June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 745, formerly § 741, as added Pub. L. 105–115, title IV, § 407(a), , 111 Stat. 2370; renumbered § 745, Pub. L. 110–316, title II, § 202(a), , 122 Stat. 3515.)

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