Sec. 2. Detention, refusal, and destruction of drugs offered for importation
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The sixth sentence in section 801(a) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ( 21 U.S.C. 381(a) ) is amended by striking except that the Secretary and all that follows through the two periods at the end and inserting except that the Secretary of Health and Human Services may destroy, without the opportunity for export, any drug refused admission under this section, if such drug is declared to be valued at an amount that is $2,500 or less (or such higher amount as the Secretary of the Treasury may set by regulation pursuant to section 498(a)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930 or such higher amount as the Commissioner of Food and Drugs may set based on a finding by the Commissioner that the higher amount is in the interest of public health), or if such drug is entering the United States by mail, and was not brought into compliance as described under subsection (b). .
The sixth sentence of section 801(a) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ( 21 U.S.C. 381(a) ), as amended by subsection (a), is further amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: ; and the Secretary of Health and Human Services may destroy, without the opportunity for export, any article refused admission under clause
(6)of the third sentence of this subsection . The seventh, eighth, and ninth sentences of section 801(a) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ( 21 U.S.C. 381(a) ) are amended— by striking a drug each place it appears and inserting an article ; and by striking the drug each place it appears and inserting the article . The last sentence in section 801(a) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ( 21 U.S.C. 381(a) ) is amended to read as follows: Clauses (2), (5), and
(6)of the third sentence of this subsection shall not be construed to prohibit the admission of narcotic or nonnarcotic drugs or other substances, the importation of which is permitted under the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act. .
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Detention, refusal, and destruction of drugs offered for importation
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