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[CITE: 21USC377]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
             CHAPTER 9--FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND COSMETIC ACT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER VII--GENERAL AUTHORITY
 
                Part A--General Administrative Provisions
 
Sec. 377. Revision of United States Pharmacopoeia; development 
        of analysis and mechanical and physical tests
        
    The Secretary, in carrying into effect the provisions of this 
chapter, 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.

(July 12, 1943, ch. 221, title II, 57 Stat. 500; 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, 
Sec. 5, eff. Apr. 11, 1953, 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631.)

                          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.

                          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 note set out under section 
41 of this title.
