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[CITE: 42USC263]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
                SUBCHAPTER II--GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
 
   Part F--Licensing of Biological Products and Clinical Laboratories
 
                     subpart 1--biological products
 
Sec. 263. Preparation of biological products by Service

    (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.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, Sec. 352, 58 Stat. 703.)

                          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. Secretary of Health, Education, and 
Welfare redesignated Secretary of Health and Human Services by section 
509(b) of Pub. L. 96-88 which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 
20, Education.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 201 of this title.
