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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART II - Disease Control (§§ 351 — 697) › Chapter 36 - Registration of Persons with Diabetes Mellitus (§§ 611 — 618) › § 618 - Donations and federal funds

(a) The Secretary may accept donations to be used for the prevention, treatment, education, study and research, or any other diabetes-related purposes. The money thus obtained shall be deposited in the Health Fund created under Act No. 26 of November 25, 1975, as amended, and shall be used exclusively as provided in this subsection.
(b) The Secretary shall take affirmative action relying on the data gathered in the Registry to guarantee the appropriation of Federal funds that facilitate the prevention, treatment, education, study, and research, or diabetes- related purposes.
History —Aug. 11, 2011, No. 175, § 12, eff. 90 days after Aug. 11, 2011.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART II - Disease Control (§§ 351 — 697) › Chapter 37 - Ratproofing Buildings (§§ 621-625 — 625) › §§ 621–625 - Repealed. Act Aug. 22, 2012. No. 197, § 1, eff. Aug. 22, 2012

History —Apr. 16, 1946, No. 332, p. 894, § 1; May 13, 1947, No. 375, p. 720, § 1; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART II - Disease Control (§§ 351 — 697) › Chapter 37 - Ratproofing Buildings (§§ 621-625 — 625) › § 622 - Ratproofing buildings—Contracts for ratproofing properties; bond [Repealed]

History —Apr. 16, 1946, No. 332, p. 894, § 2, eff. 90 days after Apr. 16, 1946; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART II - Disease Control (§§ 351 — 697) › Chapter 37 - Ratproofing Buildings (§§ 621-625 — 625) › § 623 - Ratproofing buildings—Approval, registration, and cancellation of bond [Repealed]

History —Apr. 16, 1946, No. 332, p. 894, § 3, eff. 90 days after Apr. 16, 1946; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART II - Disease Control (§§ 351 — 697) › Chapter 37 - Ratproofing Buildings (§§ 621-625 — 625) › § 624 - Ratproofing buildings—Withdrawal from fund; engineering services; regulations [Repealed]

History —Apr. 16, 1946, No. 332, p. 894, § 4, eff. 90 days after Apr. 16, 1946; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART II - Disease Control (§§ 351 — 697) › Chapter 37 - Ratproofing Buildings (§§ 621-625 — 625) › § 625 - Ratproofing buildings—Reimbursement by property owners [Repealed]

History —Apr. 16, 1946, No. 332, p. 894, § 5, eff. 90 days after Apr. 16, 1946; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART II - Disease Control (§§ 351 — 697) › Chapter 39 - Domestic Animals (§ 651) › § 651 - Municipal regulation of domestic animals

Authority is hereby conferred upon the municipal councils of Puerto Rico to regulate by ordinance, in accordance with such regulations as may be drafted by the Secretary of Health as provided in § 179 of Title 3, the running at large of domestic animals, and the destruction and impounding of same; and to regulate the muzzling and licensing of dogs, the destruction of the same in the interest of public health; and, further, to provide the terms and conditions upon which impounded animals may be redeemed by the owners thereof; and, generally, to enact all needful ordinances having in view the protection of the public health as affected by the running at large of domestic animals.
History —Mar. 7, 1912, No. 24, p. 57, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART II - Disease Control (§§ 351 — 697) › Chapter 41 - Secondhand Goods (§§ 671 — 678) › § 671 - Importation; fumigation

Every importer of secondhand goods to be used for sale to the public is hereby obliged to report each purchase or importation to the Secretary of Health, describing the articles and stating the amount acquired. This information must be in the hands of the Secretary of Health before the merchandise is removed from the docks or from the storehouses of the express companies or from the post offices.
As soon as possible after he has been informed in regard to importations of secondhand goods, the Secretary of Health shall order that said goods, in their original boxes, sacks, or packages, be fumigated. The merchandise so imported shall be fumigated under the supervision of the officials of the Department of Health. Every merchant, tradesman, wholesale or retail dealer who sells secondhand goods in Puerto Rico, whether or not imported shall notify the Secretary of Health before selling these articles and likewise he shall submit said articles to the fumigation process under the supervision of the officials of the Department of Health. Every merchant, tradesman, wholesale or retail dealer who sells secondhand, repossessed goods or which have not been previously fumigated, shall submit them to the fumigation process under the supervision of the officials of the Department of Health.
History —May 6, 1942, No. 85, p. 630, § 2; June 13, 1968, No. 81, p. 143, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART II - Disease Control (§§ 351 — 697) › Chapter 41 - Secondhand Goods (§§ 671 — 678) › § 672 - Tags for fumigated articles

Each article of the secondhand goods, after such goods have been fumigated as provided in § 671 of this title, shall bear affixed thereto a tag showing that said article has been duly fumigated in Puerto Rico under the supervision of the Department of Health. On each tag there shall clearly be mentioned the phrase “Secondhand Goods” and some key symbol to identify the name of the importer, merchant, tradesman or dealer of each fumigated merchandise.
The cost of these tags and of the work of attaching them shall be paid by the importer, merchant, tradesman or dealer of each fumigated merchandise.
History —May 6, 1942, No. 85, p. 630, § 3; June 13, 1968, No. 81, p. 143, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART II - Disease Control (§§ 351 — 697) › Chapter 41 - Secondhand Goods (§§ 671 — 678) › § 673 - Importer’s license

Every importer, merchant, tradesman, wholesale or retail dealer who sells secondhand goods in Puerto Rico shall provide himself with a license issued by the Secretary of Health.
History —May 6, 1942, No. 85, p. 630, § 4; June 13, 1968, No. 81, p. 143, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART II - Disease Control (§§ 351 — 697) › Chapter 41 - Secondhand Goods (§§ 671 — 678) › § 676 - Regulations; inspection

The Secretary of Health shall prescribe the regulations necessary for the best enforcement of §§ 671—673 and 676—678 of this title. For the purposes of such sections and of the regulations promulgated, the term secondhand goods shall include clothing, used wearing apparel, personal wear accessories, articles that in their daily use have been in contact with the human body or articles which have been exposed to contamination with pathogenic organisms. Jewelry, metal, wood, plastic or crystal articles are not included under this definition. It is likewise provided that for the general works of inspection and supervision the health inspectors may be used.
History —May 6, 1942, No. 85, p. 630, § 7; June 13, 1968, No. 81, p. 143, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART II - Disease Control (§§ 351 — 697) › Chapter 41 - Secondhand Goods (§§ 671 — 678) › § 677 - Use of materials prohibited

The use of used materials and secondhand goods in the making of articles of new manufacture, including among the latter the making of springs, quilts, pillows, mattresses, and similar articles, is strictly prohibited.
History —May 6, 1942, No. 85, p. 630, § 8, eff. 90 days after May 6, 1942.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART II - Disease Control (§§ 351 — 697) › Chapter 41 - Secondhand Goods (§§ 671 — 678) › § 678 - Penalties

Every person who violates the provisions of §§ 671—673 and 676—678 of this title and/or the regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Health for the best enforcement hereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) or by imprisonment in jail for a term of not less than twenty-five (25) days, or by both penalties, in the discretion of the court; Provided, That in case of subsequent offenses the permits and/or special licenses granted under the provisions of §§ 671—673 and 676—678 of this title shall be cancelled and there shall also be imposed upon him a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) or imprisonment in jail for a term of not less than ninety (90) days, or both penalties, in the discretion of the court; Provided, further, That for the purposes of §§ 671—673 and 676—678 of this title, person shall be understood to be every natural or artificial person or the managing partner, manager, agent, or representative of said natural or artificial person, or the directing partner or manager of a civil or mercantile partnership committing the violation.
History —May 6, 1942, No. 85, p. 630, § 9, eff. 90 days after May 6, 1942.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART II - Disease Control (§§ 351 — 697) › Chapter 43 - Alcoholism (§§ 691 — 697) › § 691 - Definition of alcoholic

An alcoholic shall be deemed to be any person who repeatedly drinks intoxicating beverages more than is customary according to the social and dietetical usage thereof in the community, and who by so doing injures his health, his interpersonal relations, or his financial potentialities.
History —June 27, 1958, No. 128, p. 310, § 1, eff. July 1, 1958.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART II - Disease Control (§§ 351 — 697) › Chapter 43 - Alcoholism (§§ 691 — 697) › § 692 - Formulation of program against alcoholism and for rehabilitation

The Secretary of Health is hereby authorized and directed to formulate, establish, organize and develop a program of action against alcoholism and for the rehabilitation of the alcoholic, covering the phases of prevention, care, treatment, and the physical, social, emotional and occupational rehabilitation of the alcoholic.
History —June 27, 1958, No. 128, p. 310, § 2, eff. July 1, 1958.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART II - Disease Control (§§ 351 — 697) › Chapter 43 - Alcoholism (§§ 691 — 697) › § 693 - Duties of Secretary of Health

To that effect, the Secretary of Health, through the organization unit in charge of the administration of such a program of action, shall:
(a) Provide such help as in his judgment will bring the greatest benefit to such alcoholics.
(b) Make surveys and investigations toward getting better acquainted with the problem of the alcoholics in Puerto Rico and the means for fighting alcoholism.
(c) Establish and operate dispensaries for this purpose, and cooperate with nonprofit voluntary community organizations operating similar dispensaries or wishing to participate in this activity.
(d) Carry out educational activities with regard to alcoholism for the benefit of the general public, alcoholics and their families, and see about the professionals who are to, or may participate in, the services to be provided for alcoholics.
(e) Enter into contracts with physicians and other professional personnel for professional services for the purposes of the program, and with hospitals and clinics for hospital services.
(f) Designate the necessary employees for the program, and assign duties thereto; provide for other necessary disbursements in connection with the program.
History —June 27, 1958, No. 128, p. 310, § 3, eff. July 1, 1958.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART II - Disease Control (§§ 351 — 697) › Chapter 43 - Alcoholism (§§ 691 — 697) › § 694 - Establishment and operation of rehabilitation center

The Secretary of Health shall formulate the necessary plans for the establishment, as soon as practicable, of a center for the rehabilitation of the alcoholic; and for its operation and government.
History —June 27, 1958, No. 128, p. 310, § 4, eff. July 1, 1958.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART II - Disease Control (§§ 351 — 697) › Chapter 43 - Alcoholism (§§ 691 — 697) › § 696 - Regulations

The Administrator of Mental Health and Addiction Services shall promulgate, adopt, amend, and shall put into effect the necessary regulations for the fulfillment of this chapter and its purposes.
History —June 27, 1958, No. 128, p. 310, § 6; May 22, 1975, No. 26, p. 51, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART II - Disease Control (§§ 351 — 697) › Chapter 43 - Alcoholism (§§ 691 — 697) › § 697 - Appropriations and use; free services for indigent persons, payments according to income

(a) To carry out the purposes of this chapter during the fiscal year 1958-59, the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) is hereby appropriated to the Department of Health, which sum may be used for the payment of rent on premises and the purchase of equipment, materials and supplies; payment of salaries; payment on professional service contracts; payment of hospital services; traveling expenses and personnel training; other expenses. Provided, That direct services shall be given free of charge only to indigent persons; other persons availing themselves of the benefits of the program shall pay according to their incomes and resources as determined by the social service, but never in excess of the cost of the services received. Program receipts on this score shall be covered into the general funds of the Government of Puerto Rico.
(b) In succeeding years the funds required for the continuation of this program shall be included in the operating budget of the Department of Health.
History —June 27, 1958, No. 128, p. 310, §§ 7, 8, eff. July 1, 1958.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 51 - Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (§§ 711 — 732) › § 711 - Short title

This chapter may be cited as the “Puerto Rico Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act”.
History —Apr. 26, 1940, No. 72, p. 492, § 1, eff. 90 days after Apr. 26, 1940.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 51 - Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (§§ 711 — 732) › § 713 - Acts prohibited

The following acts and the permitting thereof within Puerto Rico are hereby prohibited:
(a) The manufacture, sale, or delivery, holding or offering for sale of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded.
(b) The adulteration or misbranding of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic.
(c) 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.
(d) The sale, delivery for sale, holding for sale, or offering for sale of any article in violation of §§ 722 or 726 of this title.
(e) The dissemination of false advertisement.
(f) The refusal to permit entry or inspection, or to permit the taking of a sample, as authorized by § 731 of this title.
(g) The giving of a guaranty which is false, except by a person who relied on a guaranty to the same effect signed by, and containing the name and address of the person residing in the Commonwealth from whom he received in good faith the food, drug, device or cosmetic.
(h) The removal or disposal of a detained or embargoed article in violation of § 716 of this title.
(i) The alteration, mutilation, destruction, 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 misbranded.
(j) 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 of this chapter.
(k) The using, on the labeling of any drug or in any advertisement relating to such drug, a representation or suggestion to the effect that an application is effective under § 726 of this title, or that such drug complies with the provisions of such section.
History —Apr. 26, 1940, No. 72, p. 492, § 3, eff. 90 days after Apr. 26, 1940.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 51 - Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (§§ 711 — 732) › § 714 - Injunction

In addition to the remedies hereinafter provided the Secretary is authorized to apply to the Court of First Instance 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 § 713 of this title, irrespective of whether or not there exists an adequate remedy at law.
History —Apr. 26, 1940, No. 72, p. 492, § 4, eff. 90 days after Apr. 26, 1940.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 51 - Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (§§ 711 — 732) › § 715 - Penalties; exceptions

(a) Any person who violates any of the provisions of § 713 of this title, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not greater than three (3) months or with a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor greater than five thousand dollars ($5,000), or with both penalties; if the violation is committed after judgment has been rendered in last instance, said person shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not greater than one (1) year or with a fine not greater than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or both penalties, at the discretion of the court.
(b) No person shall be subject to the penalties of subsection (a) of this section, for having violated subsection (a) or (c) of § 713 of this title if he establishes a guaranty or undertaking signed by, and containing the name and address of, the person residing in the Commonwealth from whom he received in good faith the article, to the effect that such article is not adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this chapter, designating §§ 711—732 of this title.
(c) No publisher, radio-broadcast licensee, or agency or medium for the dissemination of an advertisement, to which a false advertisement relates, shall be liable under this section by reason of the dissemination by him of such false advertisement, unless he refuses to furnish the Secretary, at the request of the latter, the name and post office address of the manufacturer, packer, distributor, seller or advertising agency, residing in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, who furnished said advertisement; the manufacturer, packer, distributor or seller of such articles, however, shall be liable for said advertisements.
History —Apr. 26, 1940, No. 72, p. 492, § 5; Jan. 31, 2006, No. 53, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 51 - Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (§§ 711 — 732) › § 717 - Prosecution of violators; notice

It shall be the duty of prosecuting attorneys to proceed without delay to prosecute violators of this chapter. Before filing any complaint the Secretary shall give notice to the person against whom such proceeding is contemplated and such person shall be given an opportunity to present his views either orally or in writing, in person or by attorney, with regard to such contemplated proceeding.
History —Apr. 26, 1940, No. 72, p. 492, § 7, eff. 90 days after Apr. 26, 1940.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 51 - Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (§§ 711 — 732) › § 718 - Warning for minor violations

Nothing in this chapter shall tend to require the Secretary to file complaints for minor violations, provided the public interest will be adequately served by a suitable written notice or warning.
History —Apr. 26, 1940, No. 72, p. 492, § 8, eff. 90 days after Apr. 26, 1940.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 51 - Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (§§ 711 — 732) › § 719 - Food standards

Whenever in the judgment of the Secretary it shall be advisable to promote honesty and fair dealing in the interest of consumers, he shall promulgate regulations fixing and establishing for foods, reasonable definitions and standards of identity, and/or reasonable standards of quality and/or fill of containers. In prescribing a definition and standard of identity for any food or class of food in which optional ingredients are permitted, for the purpose of promoting honesty and fair dealing in the interest of consumers, the Secretary shall designate the optional ingredients which shall be named on the label. The definitions and standards so promulgated shall conform so far as possible to the definitions and standards promulgated by the Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture under authority conferred by § 401 of the Federal Act.
History —Apr. 26, 1940, No. 72, p. 492, § 9, eff. 90 days after Apr. 26, 1940.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 51 - Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (§§ 711 — 732) › § 720 - Food adulteration

A food shall be deemed to be adulterated:
(a)
(1) If it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which renders it injurious to health; but in case the substance is not added, such food shall not be considered adulterated under this subsection if the quantity of such substance does not render it injurious to health; or
(2) if it bears or contains any added poisonous or added deleterious substance which is unsafe as defined in § 723 of this title; or
(3) if it consists in whole or in part of a diseased, contaminated, filthy, putrid or decomposed substance, or if it is otherwise unfit for food; or
(4) if it has been produced, prepared, packed or held under unsanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth, or whereby it may have been rendered diseased, unwholesome or injurious to health; or
(5) if it is the product of a diseased animal or an animal which has died otherwise than by slaughter or that has been fed upon the uncooked offal from a slaughterhouse, or
(6) if its container is composed, in whole or in part, of any poisonous or deleterious substance which renders the contents injurious to health.
(b)
(1) If any valuable constituent has been in whole or in part omitted or abstracted therefrom; or
(2) if any substance has been substituted wholly or in part therefor; or
(3) if its damage or inferiority has been concealed in any manner, or
(4) if any substance has been added thereto or mixed or packed therewith so as to increase its bulk or weight, or reduce its quality or strength or make it appear of better quality or of greater value than it is.
(c) If it is a confectionery product and it bears or contains any alcohol or nonnutritive article or substance except coloring, flavoring, resinous glaze, all harmless, and in quantity not exceeding four-tenths of 1 per centum (0.4%), harmless natural gum, and pectin; Provided, That this subsection shall not apply to any confectionery product containing less than one-half of 1 per centum (0.5%) by volume of alcohol derived solely from the use of aromatic substances for flavoring or to any chewing gum containing inert, nonnutritive substances which are not harmful but which are masticatory.
(d) If it bears or contains a coal-tar color from a batch which has not been certified by the United States Department of Agriculture.
History —Apr. 26, 1940, No. 72, p. 492, § 10, eff. 90 days after Apr. 26, 1940.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 51 - Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (§§ 711 — 732) › § 722 - Food permits; issuance; revocation; reinstatement

(a) Whenever the Secretary finds after investigation that the distribution of food in Puerto Rico, may, by reason of contamination with microorganisms during the manufacture, processing, or packing thereof in any locality, be injurious to health, and that such injurious nature cannot be adequately determined after such articles have entered commerce, then, and in such case only, he shall promulgate regulations to regulate the issuance of permits to the respective manufacturers, processors, or packers and such permits shall govern the manufacture, processing or packing of such class of food and shall be in force for the temporary period of time that may be necessary to protect the public health; and after the effective date of such regulations, and during such temporary period, no person shall introduce or deliver for introduction into commerce any such food manufactured, processed, or packed by any such manufacturer, processor, or packer unless such manufacturer, processor, or packer holds a permit issued.
(b) The Secretary is authorized to suspend immediately upon notice any permit issued under the provisions of this section if it is found that any of the conditions thereof have been violated. Upon the revocation thereof the holder of a permit shall have the right to apply for its reinstatement and the Secretary shall then hear the new evidence, shall direct the reinspection of the establishment, and shall reinstate such permit if it is found that adequate measures have been taken to comply with and maintain the conditions of the permit.
(c) Any officer or employee duly authorized by the Secretary shall have access to any factory or establishment, the owner of which holds the said permit; and denial of access for such inspection shall be ground for suspension of the permit until such access to his establishment is freely given by the owner.
History —Apr. 26, 1940, No. 72, p. 492, § 12, eff. 90 days after Apr. 26, 1940.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 51 - Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (§§ 711 — 732) › § 723 - Poisonous substance in food; regulations

Any poisonous or deleterious substance added to any food except where such substance is required in the production thereof or cannot be avoided in good manufacturing practice, shall be deemed to be unsafe for purposes of the application of subsection (a)(2) of § 720 of this title; but when the presence of such substance is so required or cannot be so avoided, the Secretary shall by regulation prescribe limits to such extent as the Secretary finds necessary for the protection of public health, and any quantity exceeding the limits so fixed shall be deemed to be unsafe. While such a regulation is in effect such food shall not be considered to be adulterated within the meaning of subsection (a)(1) of § 720 of this title. In determining the quantity of such substances to be tolerated the Secretary shall take into account the extent to which the use of such substance is required or cannot be avoided in the production of the foods, and the various ways in which the consumer may be affected.
History —Apr. 26, 1940, No. 72, p. 492, § 13, eff. 90 days after Apr. 26, 1940.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 51 - Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (§§ 711 — 732) › § 724 - Drug adulteration

A drug or device shall be deemed to be adulterated:
(a)
(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 unsanitary conditions whereby it may have been contaminated with filth, or whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health; or
(3) if it is a drug and the container is composed, in whole or in part, of any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the contents injurious to health; or
(4) if it is a drug and it bears or contains a coal-tar color that is not from a batch certified by the United States Department of Agriculture.
(b) If it purports or represents to be a drug the name of which is recognized in an official compendium, and its strength differs from, or its quality or purity falls below, the specific standard. The determination as to strength, quality, or purity shall be made in accordance with the tests or methods of assay set forth in such compendium, or, in the absence of or inadequacy of such test or methods of assay, recourse shall be had to those prescribed by the United States Department of Agriculture. No drug defined in an official compendium shall be deemed to be adulterated under this subsection because it differs from the standard of strength, quality, or purity set forth therefor if its difference from such standard is plainly stated on its label. If a homeopathic drug is not labeled and offered for sale as such homeopathic drug, it shall conform to the United States Pharmacopoeia; but if it is clearly labeled and is offered for sale as what it really is, it shall conform to the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States.
(c) If it is not subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section and its strength differs from, or its purity or quality falls below, that which it purports or represents to be.
(d) If it is a drug and any substance has been:
(1) Mixed or packed therewith so as to reduce its quality or strength, or
(2) substituted wholly or in part therefor.
History —Apr. 26, 1940, No. 72, p. 492, § 14, eff. 90 days after Apr. 26, 1940.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 51 - Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (§§ 711 — 732) › § 726 - New drugs; exceptions

(a) No person shall sell, deliver, offer for sale, hold for sale or give away any new drug unless:
(1) The application with respect thereto has become effective under § 505 of the Federal Act, or
(B) a full list of the articles used as components;
(C) a full statement of its composition;
(D) a full description of the methods used in, and the facilities and controls used for, its manufacture, processing, and packing;
(E) such samples of such drug and of the articles used as components thereof as the Secretary may require, and
(F) specimens of the labeling proposed to be used for its sale.
(2) when it is not subject to the Federal Act, such drug has been tested and it has been found not to be unsafe for use under the conditions prescribed, recommended or suggested in the labeling thereof, and prior to selling or offering for sale such drug, there has been filed with the Secretary an application setting forth:
(A) A full report of the investigations which have been made to show that it can or cannot be used with safety;
(b) The application provided for in subsection (a)(2) of this section shall become effective sixty (60) days after the filing thereof, except that, after due notice to the applicant and reserving for him an opportunity for a hearing, if the Secretary finds that the drug is not safe for use under the conditions prescribed, recommended or suggested in the proposed labeling thereof, he shall, prior to the effective date of the application, issue an order refusing to permit the application to become effective.
(c) This section shall not apply:
(1) To a drug intended solely for investigational use by experts qualified by scientific training and experience to investigate the safety of drugs, provided the same is plainly labeled “For investigational use only”; or
(2) to a drug sold in this Commonwealth at any time prior to the enactment of this act or introduced into interstate commerce at any time prior to the enactment of the Federal Act, or
(3) to any drug which is licensed under the Virus, Serum, and Toxin Act of July 1, 1902 (U.S.C. 1934 ed. title 42, Chap. 4).
(d) An order refusing to permit an application under this section to become effective may be revoked by the Secretary.
History —Apr. 26, 1940, No. 72, p. 492, § 16, eff. 90 days after Apr. 26, 1940.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 51 - Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (§§ 711 — 732) › § 727 - Cosmetic adulteration

A cosmetic shall be deemed to be adulterated:
(a) If it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious under the conditions for its application prescribed in the labeling or advertisement thereof, or under such conditions of use as are customary or usual; Provided, That this rule shall not apply to hair dye manufactured with coal-tar coloring, but on condition that the label bears the following legend conspicuously displayed thereon: “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 because to do so may cause blindness.”, and that the labeling bears adequate directions for such preliminary testing. For the purposes of this subsection and subsection (e) of this section the term “hair dye” shall not include eyelash dyes or eyebrow dyes.
(b) If it consists in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance.
(c) If it has been produced, prepared, packed, or held under unsanitary conditions whereby it has become contaminated with filth, or whereby it may have become injurious to health.
(d) If its container is composed, in whole or in part of any poisonous or deleterious substance which may change the contents into matter injurious to health.
(e) If it is not a hair dye and it bears or contains a coal-tar color not part of a batch certified by the United States Department of Agriculture.
History —Apr. 26, 1940, No. 72, p. 492, § 17, eff. 90 days after Apr. 26, 1940.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 51 - Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (§§ 711 — 732) › § 728 - Cosmetic misbranding

A cosmetic shall be deemed to be misbranded:
(a) If its labeling is false or misleading in any particular.
(b) If in package form unless it bears a label containing:
(1) The name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor, and
(2) an accurate statement of the quantity of the contents in terms of weight, measure, or individual units of weight or measure contained in the complete package; Provided, That under clause (2) of this subsection reasonable variations shall be permitted, and exemptions as to small packages shall be established by regulations prescribed by the Secretary.
(c) If the word, statements, or other information required by this chapter do not appear on the label and these are not prominently placed thereon with such conspicuousness (as compared with other words, statements, designs, or devices, in the labeling) and in such terms not likely to be read and understood by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase and use.
(d) If its container is so made, formed, or filled as to be misleading.
History —Apr. 26, 1940, No. 72, p. 492, § 18, eff. 90 days after Apr. 26, 1940.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 51 - Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (§§ 711 — 732) › § 729 - False advertising

(a) An advertisement of a food, drug, device, or cosmetic shall be deemed to be false if it is false or misleading in any particular.
(b) For the purpose of this chapter the advertisement of a drug or device representing it to have any effect in 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 and venereal disease, shall also be deemed to be false; Provided, That no advertisement not in violation of subsection (a) of this section shall be deemed to be false under this subsection if it circulates only among members of the medical, dental or veterinary professions, or appears only in the scientific periodicals of these professions, or circulates only for the purpose of public-health education by persons not commercially interested, directly or indirectly, in the sale of such drugs or devices; Provided, further, That whenever the Secretary determines that by virtue of the advance in medical science any type of self-medication has been found for any of the diseases named above, he shall by regulation authorize the advertisement of drugs having curative or therapeutic effect for such disease, subject to such conditions and restrictions as the said official may deem necessary in the interests of public health; Provided, further, That this subsection shall not be construed as indicating that self-medication for diseases other than those named herein is safe or efficacious.
History —Apr. 26, 1940, No. 72, p. 492, § 19, eff. 90 days after Apr. 26, 1940.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 51 - Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (§§ 711 — 732) › § 730 - Regulations; notice, hearing, effective date

(a) The authority to promulgate regulations for the enforcement of this chapter is hereby vested in the Secretary. The said Secretary is hereby likewise authorized to make the regulations thus promulgated conform, insofar as possible, with those promulgated under the Federal Act.
(b) The public hearings authorized or required by this chapter shall be conducted by the Secretary or such officer, agent, or employee as the Secretary may designate for the purpose.
(c) Before promulgating any regulations contemplated by § 719; 721(j); 722; 725(d), (f), (g), and (h), or 729(b) of this title, the Secretary shall give public notice of his intention, fixing the time and place for a public hearing. The regulations so promulgated shall become effective on the date fixed by the Secretary, and which shall be set to fall ninety (90) days after their promulgation. Such regulations may be amended or repealed in the same manner as is provided for their adoption; except that the Secretary may, to such an extent as he deems necessary in order to prevent undue hardship, disregard the foregoing provisions regarding notice, hearing, or effective date.
History —Apr. 26, 1940, No. 72, p. 492, § 20, eff. 90 days after Apr. 26, 1940.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 51 - Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (§§ 711 — 732) › § 731 - Inspection

The Secretary or his duly authorized agent shall have free access at any reasonable hour to any factory, warehouse, or establishment in which foods, drugs, devices or cosmetics are manufactured, processed, packed, or held for introduction into commerce, or may enter any vehicle being used to transport or hold such foods, drugs, devices or cosmetics in commerce, for the purpose:
(1) Of inspecting such factory, warehouse, establishment, or vehicle to determine if any of the provisions of this chapter are being violated, and
(2) to secure samples or specimens of any food, drug, device or cosmetic for examination in the laboratories of his Department.
History —Apr. 26, 1940, No. 72, p. 492, § 21, eff. 90 days after Apr. 26, 1940.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 51 - Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (§§ 711 — 732) › § 732 - Dissemination of information

(a) The Secretary may cause to be published from time to time reports summarizing all judgments, decrees, and court orders which have been rendered under this chapter, including the nature of the charge and the order derived therefrom.
(b) The Secretary may also cause to be disseminated such information on food, drugs, devices and cosmetics as he may deem necessary in the interest of public health and the protection of the consumer against fraud. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit him from collecting, reporting and illustrating the results of his investigations.
History —Apr. 26, 1940, No. 72, p. 492, § 22, eff. 90 days after Apr. 26, 1940.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 52 - Poultry Products (§§ 741 — 758) › § 741 - Short title

This chapter shall be known as the “Puerto Rico Wholesome Poultry and Poultry Products for Human Consumption Act”.
History —July 7, 1971, No. 10, p. 601, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 52 - Poultry Products (§§ 741 — 758) › § 743 - Federal and Commonwealth cooperation

(a) The Department of Health is hereby designated as the Commonwealth agency in charge of cooperating with the United States Secretary of Agriculture under the provisions of § 5 of the Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act in developing and administering a Commonwealth poultry and poultry products inspection program under the provisions of this chapter to insure that its requirements shall be at least equal to those prescribed by the Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act, as well as to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
(b) To carry out this cooperation, the Secretary is hereby authorized to accept from the United States Secretary of Agriculture the aid and advisory assistance as well as technical and laboratory assistance and training (including curricular and instructional materials and equipment), and financial and other aid for planning, developing and administering such state program. The Secretary is further authorized to use Commonwealth funds available by law to pay the proportion of the estimated total cost of this cooperative program agreed upon with the Federal Department of Agriculture.
(c) The Secretary is likewise authorized to recommend to the Federal Secretary of Agriculture names of officers or employees of the Commonwealth Government to be designated in the advisory committees provided in § 5 of the Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act.
The Secretary shall act as representative of the Governor to consult the United States Secretary of Agriculture under paragraph (c) of § 5 of said act, unless the Governor selects another representative.
History —July 7, 1971, No. 10, p. 601, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 52 - Poultry Products (§§ 741 — 758) › § 744 - Ante mortem, post mortem, reinspection and quarantine

(a) For the purpose of preventing the use in intrastate commerce of any adulterated poultry product which is capable of use as human food, the Secretary shall, wherever and whenever he deems it necessary, carry out, through authorized inspectors, ante mortem inspections in each official establishment processing poultry or poultry products for intrastate commerce. He may order the quarantine or segregation of any poultry he considers unfit for human consumption.
(b) For the foregoing purpose the Secretary shall carry out where and when he deems it necessary, to be made by authorized inspectors, post mortem inspections of slaughtered poultry and poultry products processed in an official establishment for intrastate commerce capable of use as human food.
(c) When in any establishment poultry or poultry products are found by the Secretary to be adulterated or misbranded, as provided by law, he shall stamp on said poultry or poultry products an appropriate label or mark warning the public that said products are, or considered to be, misbranded or adulterated and have been detained by the Secretary. Said products shall remain under the custody of the owner of the establishment and he shall be notified that said products shall not be removed nor disposed of by sale or otherwise until the Secretary or a court grants the corresponding permission. The inspector shall issue a certificate, in original copy, stating the quantity of products detained and, if he deems it necessary, he shall take the corresponding samples. If it is proved that said poultry or poultry products are unfit for human consumption or misbranded or adulterated, he may have them destroyed or order the label to be corrected, if it were possible, with the consent of the owner of the product. In the absence of this consent, the inspector may request the judge to issue an order for its destruction or correction.
The destruction of the product shall be carried out under the supervision of an inspector and the costs and expenses of the proceeding, storage and other expenses incurred shall be borne by the owner. If the condition can be corrected by the appropriate label or by reprocessing the product, the court may order the interested party to carry it out with the approval of the Secretary.
History —July 7, 1971, No. 10, p. 601, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 52 - Poultry Products (§§ 741 — 758) › § 745 - Sanitary facilities and practices

(a) Every official establishment slaughtering poultry or poultry products for intrastate commerce shall have such premises, facilities and equipment, and be operated in accordance with such sanitary practices, as are required by regulations promulgated by the Secretary for the purpose of preventing the entry into intrastate commerce of poultry and poultry products which are adulterated.
(b) The Secretary shall not offer inspection service to any establishment whose premises, facilities, equipment and operation are not in accordance with this section.
History —July 7, 1971, No. 10, p. 601, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART III - Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics (§§ 711 — 1031d) › Chapter 52 - Poultry Products (§§ 741 — 758) › § 748 - Applicability to every establishment in which poultry is slaughtered and poultry products processed

No establishment which does not comply with the requirements of this chapter and its regulations shall slaughter poultry or process poultry products capable of use for human food for intrastate commerce.
History —July 7, 1971, No. 10, p. 601, § 8.