Title 21, Food and DrugsRelease 119-102
§626 Purchase of Tags, Labels, Stamps, and Certificates
Title 21 › CHAPTER 12 — MEAT INSPECTION › SUBCHAPTER I — INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS; ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING › § 626
Summary
Lets Agriculture Secretary buy meat-inspection printed materials exempt from public-printing law.
Full Legal Text
Title 21, §626
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The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to expend appropriations for meat inspection for the purchase of printed tags, labels, stamps, and certificates without regard to existing laws applicable to public printing.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Section was formerly classified to section 431 of Title 7, Agriculture, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Section was enacted as part of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944, and not as part of the Federal Meat Inspection Act which is classified to subchapters I to IV–A of this chapter.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Authorization of AppropriationAuthorization of appropriation of sums necessary for the purposes of this section, see note under section 395 of Title 7, Agriculture.
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Citation
21 U.S.C. § 626
Title 21, Food and Drugs
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102