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21 USC § 321b - “Package” defined 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t21/s321b"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "21 USC § 321b - “Package” defined"
title_number: 21
title_name: "FOOD AND DRUGS"
section_number: "321b"
section_name: "“Package” defined"
chapter_number: 9
chapter_name: "FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND COSMETIC ACT"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "DEFINITIONS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(July 24, 1919, ch. 26, 41 Stat. 271.)"
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# § 321b. “Package” defined

March 3, 1913

The word “package” where it occurs the second and last time in the act entitled “An act to amend section 8 of an act entitled, ‘An act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes,’ ” approved , shall include and shall be construed to include wrapped meats inclosed in papers or other materials as prepared by the manufacturers thereof for sale.

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**Source Credit**: (July 24, 1919, ch. 26, 41 Stat. 271.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

An act approved , referred to in text, is , , which amended . For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

“An act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes”, referred to in text, is , , which was classified to subchapter I (§ 1 et seq.) of chapter 1 of this title, was repealed (except for section 14a which was transferred to ) by , formerly § 902(a), ; renumbered § 1002(a), , , , and is covered by this chapter.

### Codification

Section, which was not enacted as part of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act which comprises this chapter, was formerly classified to the last sentence of paragraph third of . Section 1002(a) of act , set out as an Effective Date note under , provided that this section should remain in force and effect and be applicable to the provisions of this chapter.