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KRS 217.175: Prohibited acts.

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  1. KRS Chapter 217

The following acts and the causing thereof within the Commonwealth of Kentucky 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) The receipt in commerce of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated

or misbranded, and the delivery or proffered delivery thereof for pay or otherwise;

(4) The sale, delive ry for sale, holding for sale, or offering for sale of any article in

violation of KRS 217.075;

(5) The dissemination of any false advertisement;

(6) The refusal to permit entry or inspection, or to permit the taking of a sample or to

permit access to records or evidence, as authorized by KRS 217.155;

(7) The giving of a guaranty or undertaking which guaranty or undertaking is false,

except by a person who relied on a guaranty or undertaking to the same effect

signed by, and containing the name and address of the person residing in the

Commonwealth of Kentucky from whom he received in good faith the food, drug,

device, or cosmetic;

(8) The removal or disposal of a detained or quarantined article in violation of KRS

217.115;

(9) The alteration, mutilation, de struction, obliteration, or removal of the whole or any

part of the labeling of, or the doing of any other act with respect to a food, drug,

device, or cosmetic, if such act is done while such article is held for sale and results

in such article being adulterated or misbranded;

(10) Forging, counterfeiting, simulating, or falsely representing, or without proper

authority using any mark, stamp, tag, label, or other identification device authorized

or required by regulations promulgated under the provisions o f KRS 217.005 to

217.215;

(11) The using, on the labeling of any drug or in any advertisement relating to such drug,

of any representation or suggestion that any application with respect to such drug is

effective under KRS 217.075, or that such drug compli es with the provisions of

such section;

(12) The manufacture, sale or exchange of any filled milk;

(13) The manufacture, mixing, compounding, selling, or offering for sale of any flour

unless the same is enriched; provided that this prohibition shall not a pply to flour

sold to bakeries or other commercial secondary processors, which flour is used only

in the production of enriched flour or enriched bread or in the manufacture of

products not required to be enriched;

(14) The manufacture, baking, sale, or offering for sale of any bread except bread

conforming to the definition of enriched bread.

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