Missouri · statute · Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 196 · 159 active provisions
1. For the purpose of sections 196.010 to 196.120: (1) The term "contaminated with filth" applies to any food, drug, device, or cosmetic not securely protected from dust, dirt, and as far as may be necessary by all reasonable means, from all foreign or injurious contaminations; (2) The term "cosmetic" means articles in…
The following acts and the causing thereof within the state of Missouri are hereby prohibited: (1) The manufacture, sale, or delivery, holding or offering for sale of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded; (2) The adulteration or misbranding of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic; (3) Th…
In addition to the remedies herein provided the department of health and senior services is hereby authorized to apply to the circuit court for, and such court shall have jurisdiction upon hearing and for cause shown, to grant a temporary or permanent injunction restraining any person from violating any provision of se…
1. Any person who violates any of the provisions of section 196.015 shall, on conviction, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisonment for not more than one year or by both such fine and imprisonment. 2. No person shall be subject to the penalties of…
1. Whenever a duly authorized agent of the department of health and senior services finds or has probable cause to believe, that any food, drug, device, or cosmetic is adulterated, or so misbranded as to be dangerous or fraudulent, within the meaning of sections 196.010 to 196.120, he shall affix to such article a tag…
It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney in any county or city in the state, when called upon by the department of health and senior services, or any of its assistants, to render any legal assistance in his power to execute the laws and to prosecute cases rising under the provisions of sections 196.010 to 196.1…
Nothing in sections 196.010 to 196.120 shall be construed as requiring the department of health and senior services to report for the institution of proceedings under sections 196.010 to 196.120, minor violations of said sections, whenever the department of health and senior services believes that the public interest w…
1. The authority to promulgate regulations for the efficient enforcement of sections 196.010 to 196.120 is hereby vested in the department of health and senior services. The department shall make the regulations promulgated under said sections conform, insofar as practicable, with those promulgated under the federal ac…
In no event shall the said department of health and senior services prescribe or promulgate any regulation fixing or establishing any definitions or standards which are more rigid or more stringent than those prescribed by the federal act applying to any commodity covered by sections 196.010 to 196.120 and if any produ…
The department of health and senior services or its duly authorized agent shall have free access at all reasonable hours to any factory, warehouse, or establishment in which foods, drugs, devices, or cosmetics are manufactured, processed, packed, or held for introduction into commerce, or to enter any vehicle being use…
1. A nonprofit organization may prepare food in a private home or other area for distribution to the end consumer at a charitable fund-raising event. 2. The nonprofit organization may inform the consumer by placing a clearly visible placard at the serving location that the food was prepared in a kitchen that is not sub…
For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of sections 196.010 to 196.120, carriers engaged in interstate commerce, and persons receiving foods, drugs, devices, or cosmetics in interstate commerce, shall upon the request of an officer or employee duly designated by the department of health and senior services, permit…
1. The department of health and senior services may cause to be published from time to time reports summarizing all judgments, decrees, and court orders which have been rendered under sections 196.010 to 196.120, including the nature of the charge and the disposition thereof. 2. The department may also cause to be diss…
1. A food shall be deemed to be adulterated: (1) If it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health; but in case the substance is not an added substance such food shall not be considered adulterated under this subdivision if the quantity of such substance in such food…
A food shall be deemed to be misbranded: (1) If its labeling is false or misleading in any particular; (2) If it is offered for sale under the name of another food; (3) If it is an imitation of another food, unless its label bears, in type of uniform size and prominence, the word, "imitation", and, immediately thereaft…
1. Whenever the department of health and senior services finds after investigation that the distribution in Missouri of any class of food may, by reason of contamination with microorganisms during manufacture, processing, or packing thereof in any locality, be injurious to health, and that such injurious nature cannot…
Any poisonous or deleterious substance added to any food except where such substance is required in the production thereof or cannot be avoided by good manufacturing practice, shall be deemed to be unsafe for purposes of the application of subdivision (2) of section 196.070; but when such substance is so required or ca…
Nothing in sections 196.010 to 196.120 shall apply to any ordinary animal food grown on a farm; nor to any prepared food for animals the contents of which are stated on a label attached to the package or container in which such prepared food is contained; nor garbage fed to hogs.
A drug or device shall be deemed to be adulterated: (1) If it consists in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance; or (2) If it has been produced, prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have been contaminated with filth, or whereby it may have been rendered injuriou…
1. Any manufacturer, packer, distributor or seller of drugs or devices in this state shall comply with the current federal labeling requirements contained in the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, as amended, and any federal regulations promulgated thereunder. Any drug or device which contains labeling that is not in…
1. No person shall sell, deliver, offer for sale, hold for sale or give away any new drug unless: (1) An application with respect thereto has become effective under 21 U.S.C.A. § 355; or (2) When not subject to the federal act unless such drug has been tested and has not been found to be unsafe for use under the condit…
A cosmetic shall be deemed to be adulterated: (1) If it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to users under the conditions of use prescribed in the labeling or advertisement thereof, or under such conditions of use as are customary or usual; provided, that this provisio…
A cosmetic 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…
An advertisement of a food, drug, device, or cosmetic shall be deemed to be false if it is false or misleading in any material respect.
It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person, firm, association, or corporation to sell or offer for sale, either in wholesale or retail lots, any horse or mule meat under the guise or name of beef or any other animal flesh under the guise or name of any meat or meat product except that which in fact and truth it may…