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[CITE: 21USC152]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
 CHAPTER 5--VIRUSES, SERUMS, TOXINS, ANTITOXINS, AND ANALOGOUS PRODUCTS
 
Sec. 152. Importation regulated and prohibited

    The importation into the United States of any virus, serum, toxin, 
or analogous product for use in the treatment of domestic animals, and 
the importation of any worthless, contaminated, dangerous, or harmful 
virus, serum, toxin, or analogous product for use in the treatment of 
domestic animals, is prohibited without (1) a permit from the Secretary 
of Agriculture, or (2) in the case of an article originating in Canada, 
such permit or, in lieu of such permit, such certification by Canada as 
may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture.

(Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, Sec. 1 [part], 37 Stat. 832; Pub. L. 100-449, 
title III, Sec. 301(d), Sept. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 1868.)

                          Codification

    See note set out under section 151 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1988--Pub. L. 100-449 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, 
section read as follows: ``The importation into the United States, 
without a permit from the Secretary of Agriculture, of any virus, serum, 
toxin, or analogous product for use in the treatment of domestic 
animals, and the importation of any worthless, contaminated, dangerous, 
or harmful virus, serum, toxin, or analogous product for use in the 
treatment of domestic animals, are prohibited.''


            Effective and Termination Dates of 1988 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 100-449 effective on the date the United 
States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement enters into force (Jan. 1, 1989), and 
to cease to have effect on the date the Agreement ceases to be in force, 
see section 501(a), (c) of Pub. L. 100-449, set out in a note under 
section 2112 of Title 19, Customs Duties.
