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AK Stat § 17.20.105 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 3. Drugs and Devices.|Sec. 17.20.105. Preparation of drug prescription by pharmacist.

(a) In preparing a drug prescription a pharmacist shall indicate on the drug container the name and strength of the drug contained in it, unless specifically directed otherwise by the prescribing physician, osteopathic physician, dentist, or veterinarian. If a drug is a mixture of pharmacologically active substances, only the name of the mixture need be indicated on the container, or in the absence of a name, the term “physician's mixture” may be used. (b) In preparing a prescription, a pharmacist may not substitute a drug for a registered brand or trade name product specified unless the pharmacist obtains permission from the author of the prescription; but if the prescribing physician, osteopathic physician, dentist, or veterinarian is temporarily unavailable, the pharmacist may, if unable to supply the drug requested, substitute a drug or preparation of approximately equal therapeutic value so long as the pharmacist notifies the author of the prescription at an early opportunity.
AK Stat § 17.20.110 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 3. Drugs and Devices.|Sec. 17.20.110. Sale of new drugs.

(a) A person may not sell, deliver, offer for sale, hold for sale, or give away a new drug unless (1) an application for it has become effective under the federal act; or (2) when not subject to the federal act unless the drug has been tested and has not been found to be unsafe for use under the conditions prescribed, recommended, or suggested in the labeling of it, and before selling or offering it for sale there has been filed with the commissioner an application setting out (A) full reports of investigations which have been made to show whether or not the drug is safe for use; (B) a full list of the articles used as components of the drug; (C) a full statement of the composition of the drug; (D) a full description of the methods used in, and the facilities and controls used for, the manufacture, processing, and packing of the drug; (E) samples of the drug and articles used as components of it which the commissioner requires; and (F) specimens of the labeling proposed to be used for the drug. (b) This section does not apply to a physician who prescribes or administers a new drug in accordance with the conditions set out in AS 08.64.367(c).
AK Stat § 17.20.120 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 3. Drugs and Devices.|Sec. 17.20.120. Application for sale of new drugs.

The application provided for in AS 17.20.110 is effective on the 60th day after the filing of it. If the commissioner finds, after notice to the applicant and providing an opportunity for a hearing, that the drug is not safe for use under the conditions prescribed, recommended, or suggested in the proposed labeling, the commissioner shall, before the effective date of the application, issue an order refusing to permit the application to become effective. An order refusing an application to become effective may be revoked by the commissioner.
AK Stat § 17.20.130 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 3. Drugs and Devices.|Sec. 17.20.130. Exemptions.

AS 17.20.110 does not apply to a drug (1) intended solely for investigational use by experts qualified by scientific training and experience to investigate the safety in drugs if the drug is plainly labeled “for investigational use only”; or (2) regulated under 42 U.S.C. 262.
AK Stat § 17.20.132 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 3. Drugs and Devices.|Sec. 17.20.132. Enforcement authority.

The commissioner is responsible for enforcing AS 17.20.080 - 17.20.135, and may delegate that authority as appropriate. This section does not limit the authority of peace officers.
AK Stat § 17.20.135 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 3. Drugs and Devices.|Sec. 17.20.135. Definitions.

In AS 17.20.080 - 17.20.135, (1) “commissioner” means the commissioner of health and social services; (2) “department” means the Department of Health and Social Services.
AK Stat § 17.20.140 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 4. Cosmetics.|Sec. 17.20.140. Adulterated cosmetics.

A cosmetic is adulterated if (1) it bears or contains a poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to a user under the conditions of use prescribed in the labeling or advertisement of it, or under conditions of use which are customary or usual; however, this provision does not apply to coal tar hair dye, the label of which bears the following legend conspicuously displayed: “Caution - this product contains ingredients which may cause skin irritation on certain individuals and a preliminary test according to accompanying directions should first be made. This product must not be used for dyeing the eyelashes or eyebrows; to do so may cause blindness.” and the labeling of which bears adequate directions for preliminary testing, and for the purposes of this paragraph and (5) of this section the term “hair dye” does not include eyelash dyes or eyebrow dyes; (2) it consists in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance; (3) it has been produced, prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions by which it may have become contaminated with filth or made injurious to health; (4) its container is composed, in whole or in part, of a poisonous or deleterious substance which may make the contents injurious to health; (5) it is not a hair dye and it bears or contains a coal tar color other than one from a batch which has been certified under authority of the federal act.
AK Stat § 17.20.150 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 4. Cosmetics.|Sec. 17.20.150. Misbranded cosmetics.

A cosmetic is misbranded if (1) its labeling is false or misleading in any particular; (2) it is 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; however, under (B) of this paragraph reasonable variations shall be permitted, and exemptions as to small packages shall be established by regulations adopted by the department; (3) a word, statement, or other information required by or under authority of this chapter to appear on the label or labeling is not prominently placed on it with conspicuousness as compared with other words, statements, designs, or devices, in the labeling, and in terms which make it likely to be read and understood by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase and use; (4) its container is made, formed, or filled so as to be misleading.
AK Stat § 17.20.152 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 4. Cosmetics.|Sec. 17.20.152. Enforcement authority.

The commissioner of environmental conservation is responsible for enforcing AS 17.20.140 - 17.20.155, and may delegate that authority as appropriate. This section does not limit the authority of peace officers.
AK Stat § 17.20.155 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 4. Cosmetics.|Sec. 17.20.155. Definition.

In AS 17.20.140 - 17.20.155, “department” means the Department of Environmental Conservation.
AK Stat § 17.20.160 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 5. False Advertising.|Sec. 17.20.160. False advertising generally.

An advertisement of a food, drug, device, or cosmetic is false if it is false or misleading in any particular.
AK Stat § 17.20.170 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 5. False Advertising.|Sec. 17.20.170. Specified false advertising.

The advertisement of a drug or device representing that it has an effect on albuminuria, appendicitis, arteriosclerosis, blood poison, bone disease, Bright's disease, cancer, carbuncles, cholecystitis, diabetes, diphtheria, dropsy, erysipelas, gallstones, heart and vascular diseases, high blood pressure, mastoiditis, measles, meningitis, mumps, nephritis, otitis media, paralysis, pneumonia, poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), prostate gland disorders, pyelitis, scarlet fever, sexual impotence, sinus infection, smallpox, tuberculosis, tumors, typhoid, uremia, or venereal disease is false advertising. An advertisement not in violation of AS 17.20.160 is not false under this section if it is disseminated only to members of the medical, dental, or veterinary profession, or appears only in the scientific periodicals of these professions, or is disseminated only for the purpose of public health education by persons not commercially interested, directly or indirectly, in the sale of the drug or device. However, when the commissioner determines that an advance in medical science has made a self-medication safe as to any of the diseases named in this section, the department shall by regulation authorize the advertisement of drugs having curative or therapeutic effect for the disease, subject to the conditions and restrictions the commissioner considers necessary in the interests of public health. This section shall not be construed as indicating that self-medication for diseases other than those named in this section is safe or efficacious.
AK Stat § 17.20.172 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 5. False Advertising.|Sec. 17.20.172. Enforcement authority.

The commissioner is responsible for enforcing AS 17.20.160 - 17.20.175, and may delegate that authority as appropriate. This section does not limit the authority of peace officers.
AK Stat § 17.20.175 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 5. False Advertising.|Sec. 17.20.175. Definitions.

In AS 17.20.160 - 17.20.175, (1) “commissioner” means the commissioner of health and social services; (2) “department” means the Department of Health and Social Services.
AK Stat § 17.20.180 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 6. Enforcement.|Sec. 17.20.180. Regulations.

The Department of Environmental Conservation and the Department of Health and Social Services may adopt regulations for the efficient enforcement of their respective portions of this chapter. Each department may make the regulations conform, in so far as practicable, with those adopted under the federal act.
AK Stat § 17.20.190 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 6. Enforcement.|Sec. 17.20.190. Hearings.

Hearings authorized or required by this chapter shall be conducted under the provisions of AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act).
AK Stat § 17.20.200 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 6. Enforcement.|Sec. 17.20.200. Inspections and examinations.

(a) The commissioner of environmental conservation or an agent shall have free access at reasonable hours to a factory, warehouse, or establishment in which foods or cosmetics are manufactured, processed, packed, or held for introduction into commerce, to enter a vehicle being used to transport or hold these foods or cosmetics in commerce, or to an aquatic farm in order to (1) inspect a factory, warehouse, establishment, vehicle, or aquatic farm to determine if the provisions of the commissioner's respective portions of this chapter are being violated; and (2) secure samples or specimens of a food, aquatic farm product, or cosmetic. (b) The commissioner of environmental conservation shall make or have made examinations of samples secured under this section to determine whether or not a provision of the commissioner's respective portions of this chapter is being violated. (c) The commissioner of health and social services has the same powers and duties with respect to drugs and devices as the commissioner of environmental conservation has with respect to food and cosmetics under (a) and (b) of this section.
AK Stat § 17.20.220 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 6. Enforcement.|Sec. 17.20.220. Publication of reports and information.

(a) The commissioner of environmental conservation and the commissioner of health and social services may have published from time to time reports summarizing judgments, decrees, and court orders which have been rendered under their respective portions of this chapter, including the nature of the charge and the disposition of it. (b) The commissioner of environmental conservation may have disseminated information regarding food and cosmetics which the commissioner considers necessary in the interest of public health and the protection of the consumer against fraud. This section does not prohibit the commissioner from collecting, reporting, and illustrating the results of the commissioner's investigations. (c) The commissioner of health and social services has the same power with respect to drugs and devices as the commissioner of environmental conservation has with respect to food and cosmetics under (b) of this section.
AK Stat § 17.20.230 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 6. Enforcement.|Sec. 17.20.230. Detention or embargo of goods.

(a) Whenever the commissioner of environmental conservation finds or has probable cause to believe that a food or cosmetic is adulterated, or so misbranded as to be dangerous or fraudulent within the meaning of this chapter, the commissioner shall affix to it a tag or other appropriate marking, giving notice that it is or is suspected of being adulterated or misbranded and has been detained or embargoed, and warning all persons not to remove or dispose of it by sale or otherwise until permission for removal or disposal is given by the commissioner or the court. A person may not remove or dispose of a detained or embargoed article by sale or otherwise without this permission. (b) The commissioner of health and social services has the same duty with respect to drugs and devices as the commissioner of environmental conservation has with respect to food and cosmetics under (a) of this section.
AK Stat § 17.20.240 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 6. Enforcement.|Sec. 17.20.240. Petition for libel for condemnation.

When an article detained or embargoed under AS 17.20.230 has been found by the commissioner of environmental conservation or the commissioner of health and social services, as the case may be, to be adulterated or misbranded, the appropriate commissioner shall petition the superior court for a libel for condemnation of the article. When that commissioner finds that a detained or embargoed article is not adulterated or misbranded, the commissioner shall remove the tag or other marking.
AK Stat § 17.20.250 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 6. Enforcement.|Sec. 17.20.250. Destruction of adulterated or misbranded goods.

If the superior court finds that a detained or embargoed article is adulterated or misbranded, it shall, after entry of the decree, be destroyed at the expense of the claimant, under the supervision of the commissioner of environmental conservation or the commissioner of health and social services, as the case may be. Court costs and fees and storage and other proper expenses shall be taxed against the claimant of the article.
AK Stat § 17.20.260 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 6. Enforcement.|Sec. 17.20.260. Exemption from destruction.

When the adulteration or misbranding can be corrected by proper labeling or processing of the article, and after entry of the decree and after costs, fees, and expenses have been paid and a good and sufficient bond, conditioned that the article will be properly labeled or processed has been executed, the court may order that the article be delivered to the claimant for labeling or processing under the supervision of the commissioner of environmental conservation or the commissioner of health and social services, as the case may be. The claimant shall pay the expense of supervision. The bond shall be returned to the claimant of the article on representation to the court by the appropriate commissioner that the article is no longer in violation of this chapter, and that the expenses of supervision have been paid.
AK Stat § 17.20.270 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 6. Enforcement.|Sec. 17.20.270. Immediate destruction of contaminated food.

Meat, seafood, poultry, vegetable, fruit, or other perishable article in any room, building, vehicle of transportation, or other structure which is unsound, or contains filthy, decomposed, or putrid substance, or a substance that may be poisonous or deleterious to health or otherwise unsafe, is a nuisance. Whenever the commissioner of environmental conservation finds such an article, the commissioner shall immediately condemn or destroy it or in any other manner render it unsalable as human food.
AK Stat § 17.20.280 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 6. Enforcement.|Sec. 17.20.280. Injunction proceedings.

The commissioner of environmental conservation and the commissioner of health and social services may apply to the superior court for, and the court has jurisdiction to grant, a temporary or permanent injunction restraining a person from violating their respective portions of this chapter.
AK Stat § 17.20.290 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 7. Prohibited Acts, Penalties, and Liabilities.|Sec. 17.20.290. Prohibited acts.

(a) The following acts and the causing thereof are prohibited: (1) the manufacture, or sale, or delivery, holding, or offering of sale of food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded; (2) the adulteration or misbranding of food, drug, device, or cosmetic; (3) the receipt in commerce of food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded, and the delivery or proffered delivery of them for pay or otherwise; (4) the sale, delivery for sale, holding for sale, or offering for sale of an article in violation of AS 17.20.050 - 17.20.070 and 17.20.100; (5) the dissemination of a false advertisement; (6) the refusal to permit entry or inspection, or to permit the taking of a sample, as authorized by AS 17.20.200; (7) the giving of a guaranty or undertaking that 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 state from whom the person who relied on the guarantee or undertaking received the food, drug, device, or cosmetic in good faith; (8) the removal or disposal of a detained or embargoed article in violation of AS 17.20.230 - 17.20.270; (9) the alteration, mutilation, destruction, obliteration, or removal of the whole or part of the labeling of, or the doing of any other act with respect to, a food, drug, device, or cosmetic, if the act is done while the article is held for sale and results in the article being misbranded; (10) forging, counterfeiting, simulating, or falsely representing, or without proper authority using a mark, stamp, tag, label, or other identification device authorized or required by regulations adopted under AS 17.20.230 - 17.20.270; (11) the using, on the labeling of a drug or in an advertisement relating to a drug, of a representation or suggestion that an application with respect to the drug is effective under AS 17.20.110 or that the drug complies with the provisions of that section; (12) the sale or offering for sale of frozen fish as fresh fish; (13) the improper labeling and drug substitution by pharmacists under AS 17.20.105. (b) The commissioner of environmental conservation or a designee of the commissioner is responsible for enforcing the provisions of (a)(1) - (10) of this section, if the subject of the prohibited act involves food or cosmetics, and the provisions of (a)(12) of this section. This subsection does not limit the authority of peace officers. (c) The commissioner of health and social services or a designee of the commissioner is responsible for enforcing the provisions of (a)(1) - (10) of this section, if the subject of the prohibited act involves drugs or devices, and the provisions of (a)(11) and (13) of this section. This subsection does not limit the authority of peace officers.
AK Stat § 17.20.300 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 7. Prohibited Acts, Penalties, and Liabilities.|Sec. 17.20.300. Determination of misleading labeling or advertisement.

If an article is alleged to be misbranded because the labeling is misleading, or if an advertisement is alleged to be false because it is misleading, in determining whether the labeling or advertisement is misleading, there shall be taken into account among other things representations made or suggested by statement, word, design, device, sound, or combination of them, and the extent to which the labeling or advertisement fails to reveal facts material in the light of the representations or material with respect to consequences that may result from the use of the article to which the labeling or advertisement relates under the conditions of use prescribed in the labeling or advertisement or under customary or usual conditions of use.
AK Stat § 17.20.305 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 7. Prohibited Acts, Penalties, and Liabilities.|Sec. 17.20.305. Penalty for violation.

A person who with criminal negligence violates a provision of this chapter or a regulation, order, quarantine, embargo, or recall made under authority of this chapter, or violates a provision of a permit issued under this chapter, is guilty of a class A misdemeanor for each offense. The use of this section for a violation does not prevent imposition of a penalty under AS 45.50.471 - 45.50.561 for the same violation. In this section, “criminal negligence” has the meaning given in AS 11.81.900.
AK Stat § 17.20.315 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 17. Food and Drugs|Chapter 20. Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act|Article 7. Prohibited Acts, Penalties, and Liabilities.|Sec. 17.20.315. Civil fine.

(a) In addition to any other penalties imposed under this chapter or AS 45.50.471 - 45.50.561, the department may impose a civil fine on a person for a serious violation or a repeat violation of this chapter, including the regulations adopted under this chapter. (b) The department shall, by regulation, adopt a schedule of fines that a person may be required to pay under this section. A fine may not exceed $1,000 for each violation. (c) In this section, “department” means the Department of Environmental Conservation.