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Title 21 — Food and Drugs

Chapter 3 — Filled Milk

§ 64. Regulations for enforcement

Statutory text

The Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized and directed to make and enforce such regulations as may in his judgment be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.

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. Pub. L. 74–262 § 4 · 49 Stat. 1254

    Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 64

    Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 262, § 4, as added Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 743, 49 Stat. 885

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 262, § 4, as added Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 743, 49 Stat. 885

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted in text for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of Federal Security Administrator to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare [now Health and Human Services], and of Food and Drug Administration to Federal Security Agency, see notes set out under section 321 of this title.

Credits

1923–1979 · 4 acts
  1. 1923Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 262, § 4, as added Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 743, 49 Stat. 885
  2. 19401940 Reorg. Plan No. IV, § 12, eff. , 5 F.R. 2421, 54 Stat. 1237
  3. 19531953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, § 5, eff. , 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631
  4. 1979Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), , 93 Stat. 695.
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(Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 262, § 4, as added Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 743, 49 Stat. 885; 1940 Reorg. Plan No. IV, § 12, eff. , 5 F.R. 2421, 54 Stat. 1237; 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, § 5, eff. , 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631; Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), , 93 Stat. 695.)

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