Title 26, Chapter 3, Section 8
( 26-3-8)
(a) A drug or device shall be deemed to be misbranded: (1) If its labeling is false or misleading in any particular; (2) If in package form unless it bears a label containing: (A) The name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer,
or distributor; and (B) An accurate statement of the quantity of the contents in
terms of weight, measure, or numerical count, provided that
reasonable variations shall be permitted and exemptions as to
small packages shall be established by regulations prescribed by
the State Board of Pharmacy; (3) If any word, statement, or other information required by or
under authority of this chapter to appear on the label or labeling
is not prominently placed thereon with conspicuousness as compared
with other words, statements, designs, or devices in the labeling
and in such terms as to render it likely to be read and understood
by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase
and use; (4) If it is for use by man and contains any quantity of the
narcotic or hypnotic substance alphaeucaine, barbituric acid,
betaeucaine, bromal, cannabis, carbromal, chloral, coca, cocaine,
codeine, heroin, marijuana, morphine, opium, paraldehyde, peyote,
sulfonmethane, or any chemical derivative of such substance which
has been found after investigation by the State Board of Pharmacy
to be and by regulations under this chapter designated as habit
forming, or any synthetic narcotic or drug unless its label bears
the name and quantity or proportion of such substance or
derivative and in juxtaposition therewith the statement "Warning
-- May be habit forming"; (5) If it is a drug and is not designated solely by a name
recognized in an official compendium unless its label bears: (A) The common or usual name of the drug if there is such; and (B) In case it is fabricated from two or more ingredients, the
common or usual name of each active ingredient including the
kind and quantity or proportion of any alcohol and also
including, whether active or not, the name and quantity or
proportion of any bromides, ether, chloroform, acetanilid,
acetophenetidin, amidopyrine, antipyrine, atropine, hyoscine,
hyoscyamine, arsenic, digitalis, glucosides, mercury, ouabain,
strophanthin, strychnine, thyroid, or any derivative or
preparation of any such substance contained therein, provided
that to the extent that compliance with the requirements of this
subparagraph is impracticable, exemptions shall be established
by regulations promulgated by the State Board of Pharmacy; (6)(A) Unless its labeling bears: (i) Adequate directions for use; and (ii) Adequate warnings against use by children or in those
pathological conditions where its use may be dangerous to
health or against unsafe dosage or methods or duration of
administration or application in such manner and form as are
necessary for the protection of users. (B) Where any requirement of division (i) of subparagraph (A) of
this paragraph as applied to any drug or device is not necessary
for the protection of the public health, the State Board of
Pharmacy shall promulgate regulations exempting such drug or
device from such requirements; (7) If it is purported to be a drug the name of which is
recognized in an official compendium unless it is packaged and
labeled as prescribed therein, provided that the method of packing
may be modified with consent of the State Board of Pharmacy.
Whenever a drug is recognized in both the United States
Pharmacopoeia and the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United
States, it shall be subject to the requirements of the United
States Pharmacopoeia with respect to packaging and labeling unless
it is labeled and offered for sale as a homeopathic drug, in which
case it shall be subject to the provisions of the Homeopathic
Pharmacopoeia of the United States and not to those of the United
States Pharmacopoeia; (8) If it has been found by the State Board of Pharmacy to be a
drug liable to deterioration unless it is packaged in such form
and manner and its label bears a statement or such precautions as
the State Board of Pharmacy shall by regulations require as
necessary for the protection of public health. No such regulation
shall be established for any drug recognized in an official
compendium until the State Board of Pharmacy shall have informed
the appropriate body charged with the revision of such compendium
of the need for such packaging or labeling requirements and such
body shall have failed within a reasonable time to prescribe such
requirements; (9)(A) If it is a drug and its container is so made, formed, or
filled as to be misleading; (B) If it is an imitation of another drug; or (C) If it is offered for sale under the name of another drug; (10) If it is dangerous to health when used in the dosage or with
the frequency or duration prescribed, recommended, or suggested in
the labeling thereof; (11) If it is a drug intended for use by man which: (A) Is a habit-forming drug to which paragraph (4) of this
subsection applies; (B) Because of its toxicity or other potentiality for harmful
effect, the method of use, or the collateral measures necessary
to its use is not safe for use except under the supervision of a
practitioner licensed by law to administer such drug; or (C) Is limited by an effective application under Section 505 of
the federal act to use under the professional supervision of a
practitioner licensed by law to administer such drug unless it
is dispensed only: (i) Upon a written prescription of a practitioner licensed by
law to administer such drug; (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. (b) Any drug dispensed by filling or refilling a written or oral
prescription of a practitioner licensed by law to administer such
drug shall be exempt from the requirements of this Code section
except paragraphs (1) and (9) of subsection (a) of this Code section
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 (11) of
subsection (a) of this Code section. |