Title 21 — Food and DrugsRelease 119-73
§377 Revision of United States Pharmacopoeia; development of analysis and mechanical and physical tests
Title 21 › Chapter CHAPTER 9— - FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND COSMETIC ACT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VII— - GENERAL AUTHORITY › Part Part A— - General Administrative Provisions › § 377
Summary
Allows the Secretary, starting July 12, 1943, to work with professional and scientific groups to update the United States Pharmacopoeia and to create analysis methods and tests of physical and mechanical properties the FDA needs.
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Title 21, §377
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The Secretary, in carrying into effect the provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act [21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.], is authorized on and after July 12, 1943, to cooperate with associations and scientific societies in the revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia and in the development of methods of analysis and mechanical and physical tests necessary to carry out the work of the Food and Drug Administration.
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The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, referred to in text, is act June 25, 1938, ch. 675, 52 Stat. 1040, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 301 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Act, 1944, and not as part of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act which comprises this chapter.
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Transfer of Functions
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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 in the Department of Agriculture to Federal Security Agency, see notes set out under section 321 of this title.
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21 U.S.C. § 377
Title 21 — Food and Drugs
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73