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SEC. 4. Amend section 48 by adding at the end of said section the following sentence: "The foregoing requirements shall not preclude establishing the initial annual payment at a date not exceeding two full crop years from the date of the loan where the Secretary determines that farm income sufficient to make the initial payment cannot be readily anticipated at an earlier date, but this provision shall not have the effect of extending the maximum term of any loan." Approved August 23, 1951.

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To amend sections 303 (c) and 503 (b) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic
Act, as amended.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection Federal Food, (b) of section 503 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended, is amended to read as follows:

Drug, and Cos

metic Act,
amendments.
52 Stat. 1051.

"(b) (1) A drug intended for use by man which"A) is a habit-forming drug to which section 502 (d) applies; 21 U.S.C. § 353(b).

or

Conditions for dispensation of

"(B) because of its toxicity or other potentiality for harmful effect, or the method of its use, or the collateral measures neces- certain drugs. sary to its use, is not safe for use except under the supervision of a practitioner licensed by law to administer such drug; or

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"(C) is limited by an effective application under section 505 to 21 U.S.C. § 355. use under the professional supervision of a practitioner licensed by law to administer such drug,

65 Stat. 648.

shall be dispensed only (i) upon a written prescription of a prac- 65 Stat. 649. titioner licensed by law to administer such drug, or (ii) upon an oral prescription of such practitioner which is reduced promptly to writing and filed by the pharmacist, or (iii) by refilling any such written or oral prescription if such refilling is authorized by the prescriber either in the original prescription or by oral order which is reduced promptly to writing and filed by the pharmacist. The act of dispensing a drug contrary to the provisions of this paragraph shall be deemed to be an act which results in the drug being misbranded while held for sale.

21 U.S.C. 352.

"(2) Any drug dispensed by filling or refilling a written or oral Exemption from prescription of a practitioner licensed by law to administer such drug certain labeling shall be exempt from the requirements of section 502, except para- requirements. graphs (a), (i) (2) and (3), (k), and (1), and the packaging requirements of paragraphs (g) and (h), if the drug bears a label containing the name and address of the dispenser, the serial number and date of the prescription or of its filling, the name of the prescriber, and, if stated in the prescription, the name of the patient, and the directions for use and cautionary statements, if any, contained in such prescription. This exemption shall not apply to any drug dispensed in the course of the conduct of a business of dispensing drugs pursuant to diagnosis by mail, or to a drug dispensed in violation of paragraph (1) of this subsection.

"(3) The Administrator may by regulation remove drugs subject to Exemption from section 502 (d) and section 505 from the requirements of paragraph prescription (1) of this subsection when such requirements are not necessary for requirements. the protection of the public health.

“(4) A drug which is subject to paragraph (1) of this subsection Drugs deemed shall be deemed to be misbranded if at any time prior to dispensing to be misits label fails to bear the statement 'Caution: Federal law prohibits branded. dispensing without prescription'. A drug to which paragraph (1) of this subsection does not apply shall be deemed to be misbranded if

at any time prior to dispensing its label bears the caution statement

quoted in the preceding sentence.

"(5) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to relieve any Compliance with person from any requirement prescribed by or under authority of narcotics or law with respect to drugs now included or which may hereafter be marihuana laws. included within the classifications stated in section 3220 of the Internal

Revenue Code (26 U. S. C. 3220), or to marihuana as defined in section 53 Stat. 382. 3238 (b) of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U. S. C. 3238 (b))." 53 Stat. 387.

All 65 Stat. 649. 21 U.S.C. 333.

Effective date.

SEC. 2. Subsection (c) of section 303 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended, is amended by striking out the period at the end of clause (3) and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon and the following: "or (4) for having violated section 301 (b), (c) or (k) by failure to comply with section 502 (f) in respect to an article received in interstate commerce to which neither section 503 (a) nor section 503 (b) (1) is applicable, if the delivery or proffered delivery was made in good faith and the labeling at the time thereof contained the same directions for use and warning statements as were contained in the labeling at the time of such receipt of such article."

SEC. 3. The provisions of this Act shall take effect six months after the date of its enactment.

Approved October 26, 1951.

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82d Congress
Chapter 603 - 1st Session
H. R. 4027

AN ACT

To provide for an agricultural program in the Virgin Islands.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Virgin Islands. of Agriculture is authorized to establish and maintain in the Virgin Agricultural Islands of the United States an agricultural research and extension program. service program. In carrying out the program authorized by this Act the Secretary shall utilize the agencies, facilities, and employees of the Department of Agriculture, and may cooperate with the govern

ment of the Virgin Islands, and other public and private organizations 65 Stat. 661. and individuals in the Virgin Islands and elsewhere.

65 Stat. 662.

SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to trans- Inter-agency fer to the United States Department of Agriculture such part of the function, functions, property, personnel, records, and unexpended balances property, etc., of appropriations of the agricultural experiment stations in the Virgin transfers. Islands as may be agreed upon between the Secretary of the Interior

and the Secretary of Agriculture.

SEC. 3. There is authorized to be appropriated such amounts as Appropriation may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. The moneys authorized. appropriated in pursuance of this Act shall also be available for the purchase and rental of land and the construction or acquisition of buildings, for the equipment and maintenance of such buildings, purchase and rental of passenger-carrying automobiles, employment of persons in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and for printing and disseminating the results of research, and such other expenditures as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Sums appropriated in pursuance of this Act shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, sums appropriated or otherwise made available to the Department of Agriculture, and may be allocated to such agencies of the Department as are concerned with the administration of the program of the Virgin Islands.

Approved October 29, 1951.

Chapter 637 - 1st Session
S. 1629

AN ACT

To amend the Act of May 29, 1884, as amended, to permit the interstate movement, for immediate slaughter, of domestic animals which have reacted to a test for paratuberculosis or which, never having been vaccinated for brucellosis, have reacted to a test for brucellosis; and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 11 of Brucellosis of the Act of Congress approved May 29, 1884, entitled "An Act for the domestic aniestablishment of a Bureau of Animal Industry, to prevent the exporta- mals. tion of diseased cattle, and to provide means for the suppression and extirpation of pleuropneumonia and other contagious diseases among domestic animals" (21 U. S. C. 114a), is hereby amended by deleting 59 Stat. 734. there from the words "Bang's disease of cattle" and substituting in lieu thereof the words "brucellosis of domestic animals".

SEC. 2. The said Act is hereby further amended by adding, at the end thereof, the following new section:

"SEC. 13. Domestic animals which have reacted to a test recognized by the Secretary of Agriculture for paratuberculosis or which, never having been vaccinated for brucellosis, have reacted to a test recognized by the Secretary of Agriculture for brucellosis, may be shipped, 65 Stat. 693. transported, or otherwise moved from one State, Territory, or the 65 Stat. 694. District of Columbia to any other State, Territory, or the District of Columbia for immediate slaughter in accordance with such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe to prevent the dissemination of said diseases from one State, Territory, or the District of Columbia to any other State, Territory, or the District of Columbia. The Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, permit domestic animals which have been moved from one State, Territory, or the District of Columbia to any other State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, for breeding purposes, and which, subsequent to such movement, have reacted to a test for brucellosis or paratuberculosis recognized by the Secretary of Agriculture, to be reshipped in interstate commerce to the original owner at the point of origin."

Approved October 30, 1951.

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