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Title 21 — Food and Drugs

Part E · Chapter 13 — Drug Abuse Prevention and Control

§ 890. Review of Federal sales of chemicals usable to manufacture controlled substances

Statutory text

A Federal department or agency may not sell from the stocks of the department or agency any chemical which, as determined by the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, could be used in the manufacture of a controlled substance unless the Administrator certifies in writing to the head of the department or agency that there is no reasonable cause to believe that the sale of the chemical would result in the illegal manufacture of a controlled substance.

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. Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970

    Pub. L. 91–513 title II § 520 · 84 Stat. 1236

    Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 890

    (Pub. L. 91–513, title II, § 520, as added Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title X, § 1034(a), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2640.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 91–513, title II, § 520, as added Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title X, § 1034(a), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2640.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Credits

(Pub. L. 91–513, title II, § 520, as added Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title X, § 1034(a), , 110 Stat. 2640.)

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