21 CFR § 290.6 - Spanish-language version of required warning.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t21/s290.6"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "21 CFR § 290.6 - Spanish-language version of required warning."
title_number: 21
title_name: "Food and Drugs"
section_number: "290.6"
section_name: "Spanish-language version of required warning."
chapter_name: "FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES"
subchapter_number: "C"
subchapter_name: "DRUGS: GENERAL"
part_number: "290"
part_name: "CONTROLLED DRUGS"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "21 U.S.C. 352, 353, 355, 371."
regulatory_source: "40 FR 14040, Mar. 27, 1975, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "290"
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# 290.6 Spanish-language version of required warning.

By direction of section 305(c) of the Federal Controlled Substances Act, § 290.5, promulgated under section 503(b) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, requires the following warning on the label of certain drugs when dispensed to or for a patient: “Caution: Federal law prohibits the transfer of this drug to any person other than the patient for whom it was prescribed.” The Spanish version of this is: “Precaucion: La ley Federal prohibe el transferir de esta droga a otra persona que no sea el paciente para quien fue recetada.”