Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 720 - FOOD, DRUG AND COSMETIC CODE › Section 720.50 - Drugs and Devices

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) Drugs:
			 Name.
The name by which a drug is designated shall be clearly
				distinguishing and differentiating from any name recognized in an official
				compendium unless such drug complies in identity with the identity prescribed
				in an official compendium under such recognized name.
b) The term "drug defined in an official
			 compendium" means a drug having the identity prescribed for a drug in an
			 official compendium.
c) A statement
			 that a drug defined in an official compendium differs in strength, quality or
			 purity from the standard of strength, quality or purity set forth for such drug
			 in an official compendium shall show all the respects in which such drug so
			 differs, and the extent of each such difference.
d) Drugs and Devices: Labeling, Misbranding.
Among representations in the labeling of a drug or device which
				render such drug or device misbranded is a false or misleading representation
				with respect to another drug or device or a food or cosmetic.
e) The labeling of a drug which contains two
			 or more ingredients may be misleading by reason (among other reasons) of the
			 designation of such drug in such labeling by a name which includes or suggests
			 the name of one or more but not all such ingredients, even though the names of
			 all such ingredients are stated elsewhere in the labeling.
f) Drugs and Devices: Place of Business.
If a drug or device is not manufactured by the person whose
				name appear on the label, the name shall be qualified by a phrase which reveals
				the connection such person has with such drug or device, such as "Manufactured
				for and Packed by ____________," "Distributed by ____________," or other
				similar phrase which expresses the facts.
g) The statement of the place of business
			 shall include the street address, if any, of such place, unless such street
			 address is shown in a current city directory or telephone directory.
h) Where a person manufactures, packs or
			 distributes a drug or device at a place other than his principal place of
			 business, the label may state the principal place of business in lieu of the
			 actual place where each package of such drug or device was manufactured or
			 packed or is to be distributed, if such statement is not misleading in any
			 particular.
i) The requirement that
			 the label shall contain the name and place of business of the manufacturer,
			 packer or distributor shall not be considered to relieve any drug or device
			 from the requirement that its label shall not be misleading in any
			 particular.
j)
1) The statement of the quantity of the
			 contents of a package of a drug shall reveal the quantity of such drug in the
			 package, exclusive of wrappers and other material packed with such
			 drug.
2) The statement shall be
			 expressed in the terms of weight, measure, numerical count, or a combination of
			 numerical count and weight or measure, which are generally used by consumers
			 and users of such drug to express quantity thereof and which give accurate
			 information as to such quantity. But if no general usage in expressing accurate
			 information as to the quantity of such drug exists among consumers and users
			 thereof, the statement of the quantity of a drug which is not in tablet,
			 capsule, ampule or other unit form shall be in terms of weight if the drug is
			 solid, semisolid or viscous, or in terms which if in such unit form shall be in
			 terms of the numerical count of such units, supplemented, when necessary to
			 give accurate information as to the quantity of such drug in the package, by
			 such statement (in such terms, manner and form as are not misleading) of the
			 weight or measure of such units, or of the quantity of each active ingredient
			 in each such unit as will give such information.