Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-102
§263 Preparation of Biological Products by Service
Title 42 › CHAPTER 6A — PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › SUBCHAPTER II — GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES › Part F — Licensing of Biological Products and Clinical Laboratories › subpart 1 — biological products › § 263
Summary
The Service can make for itself any product listed in section 262 and any other product it needs to carry out the purposes of section 241. It can also make those products for other federal agencies, and for public or private agencies or individuals doing medical work, but only when licensed producers under section 262 cannot supply them.
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Title 42, §263
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(a)The Service may prepare for its own use any product described in section 262 of this title and any product necessary to carrying out any of the purposes of section 241 of this title.
(b)The Service may prepare any product described in section 262 of this title for the use of other Federal departments or agencies, and public or private agencies and individuals engaged in work in the field of medicine when such product is not available from establishments licensed under such section.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Functions of Public Health Service, Surgeon General of Public Health Service, and all other officers and employees of Public Health Service, and functions of all agencies of or in Public Health Service transferred to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1966, eff. June 25, 1966, 31 F.R. 8855, 80 Stat. 1610, set out as a note under section 202 of this title.
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42 U.S.C. § 263
Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102