21 U.S.C. § 611 — Devices, marks, labels, and certificates; simulations
submitted 119 years ago by ch. 2907 to r/title-21-FOOD-AND-DRUGS · 234 words · no verdicts yet
This section prohibits unauthorized making, forging, altering, possessing, or misrepresenting official marks, devices, labels, and certificates used under the chapter.
(a) No brand manufacturer, printer, person, firm*, or corporation may make a device containing an official mark* or simulation, a label bearing one, or an official certificate* or simulation, unless the Secretary* authorizes it.
(b) No person, firm, or corporation may (1) forge an official device*, mark, or certificate; (2) without authorization use or simulate one, or alter, detach, deface, or destroy one; (3) contrary to the Secretary’s regulations, fail to use one or fail to detach, deface, or destroy one; (4) knowingly possess, without promptly notifying the Secretary or representative, an official device or a counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official certificate, device, label, animal carcass, or animal part or product bearing such a mark; (5) knowingly make a false statement in a shipper’s or other covered certificate; or (6) knowingly claim that an article was inspected and passed or exempted under this chapter when it was not.
No brand manufacturer, printer, or other person, firm*, or corporation shall cast, print, lithograph, or otherwise make any device containing any official mark* or simulation thereof, or any label bearing any such mark or simulation, or any form of official certificate* or simulation thereof, except as authorized by the Secretary.
No person, firm, or corporation shall—
forge any official device*, mark, or certificate;
without authorization from the Secretary use any official device, mark, or certificate, or simulation thereof, or alter, detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or certificate;
contrary to the regulations prescribed by the Secretary, fail to use, or to detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or certificate;
knowingly possess, without promptly notifying the Secretary or his representative, any official device or any counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official certificate or any device or label or any carcass of any animal, or part or product thereof, bearing any counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official mark;
knowingly make any false statement in any shipper’s certificate or other nonofficial or official certificate provided for in the regulations prescribed by the Secretary; or
knowingly represent that any article has been inspected and passed, or exempted, under this chapter when, in fact, it has, respectively, not been so inspected and passed, or exempted.
Source credit: (Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, § 11, formerly 9th par., 34 Stat. 1263; renumbered § 11 and amended Pub. L. 90–201, §§ 1, 8, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 584, 589.)
- 1907Enacted · Act of Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907 · 34 Stat. 1263
- 1967Amended · Pub. L. 90-201 · 81 Stat. 584, 589
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 2907 on 1907-03-04.
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