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[CITE: 21USC379]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
             CHAPTER 9--FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND COSMETIC ACT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER VII--GENERAL AUTHORITY
 
                Part A--General Administrative Provisions
 
Sec. 379. Confidential information

    The Secretary may provide any information which is exempt from 
disclosure pursuant to subsection (a) of section 552 of title 5 by 
reason of subsection (b)(4) of such section to a person other than an 
officer or employee of the Department if the Secretary determines such 
other person requires the information in connection with an activity 
which is undertaken under contract with the Secretary, which relates to 
the administration of this chapter, and with respect to which the 
Secretary (or an officer or employee of the Department) is not 
prohibited from using such information. The Secretary shall require as a 
condition to the provision of information under this section that the 
person receiving it take such security precautions respecting the 
information as the Secretary may by regulation prescribe.

(June 25, 1938, ch. 675, Sec. 708, as added Pub. L. 94-295, Sec. 8, May 
28, 1976, 90 Stat. 582.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 331, 397 of this title.
