Title 21, Food and DrugsRelease 119-102

§377 Revision of United States Pharmacopoeia; Development of Analysis and Mechanical and Physical Tests

Title 21 › CHAPTER 9 — FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND COSMETIC ACT › SUBCHAPTER VII — GENERAL AUTHORITY › Part A — General Administrative Provisions › § 377

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Starting on July 12, 1943, the Secretary may work with associations and scientific societies to update the United States Pharmacopoeia. The Secretary may also create testing and analysis methods needed for the Food and Drug Administration to carry out the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

Full Legal Text

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.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

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.

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 in the Department of Agriculture to Federal Security Agency, see notes set out under section 321 of this title.

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Citation

21 U.S.C. § 377

Title 21, Food and Drugs

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102