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PUBLIC LAW 86-613-JULY 12, 1960

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tection of the public health and safety; and any container of such hazardous substance, intended or suitable for household use, which fails to bear a label in accordance with such regulations shall be doemed to be a misbranded package of a hazardous substance. (c) If the Secretary finds that, because of the size of the package involved or because of the minor hazard presented by the substance contained therein, or for other good and sufficient reasons, full compliance with the labeling requirements otherwise applicable under this Act is impracticable or is not necessary for the adequate protection of the public health and safety, the Secretary shall promulgate regulations exempting such substance from these requirements to the extent he determines to be consistent with adequate protection of the public health and safety. (d) The Secretary may exempt from the requirements established by or pursuant to this Act any container of a hazardous substance with respect to which he finds that adequate requirements satisfying the purposes of this Act have been established by or pursuant to any other Act of Congress. PROHIBITED ACTS

SEC. 4. The following acts and the causing thereof are hereby prohibited: (a) The introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of any misbranded package of a hazardous substance. (b) The alteration, mutilation, destruction, obliteration, or removal of the whole or any part of the label of, or the doing of any other act with respect to, a hazardous substance, if such act is done while the substance is in interstate commerce, or while the substance is held for sale (whether or not the first sale) after shipment in interstate commerce, and results in the hazardous substance being in a misbranded package. (c) The receipt in interstate commerce of any misbranded package of a hazardous substance and the delivery or proffered delivery thereof for pay or otherwise. (d) The giving of a guarantee or undertaking referred to in section 5(b)(2) which guarantee or undertaking is false, except by a person who relied upon a guarantee or undertaking to the same effect signed by, and containing the name and address of, the person residing in the United States from whom he received in good faith the hazardous substance. (e) The failure to permit entry or inspection as authorized by section 11(b) or to permit access to and copying of any record as authorized by section 12. (f) The introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce, or the receipt in interstate commerce and subsequent delivery or proffered delivery for pay or otherwise, of a hazardous substance in a reused food, drug, or cosmetic container or in a container which, though not a reused container, is identifiable as a food, drug, or cosmetic container by its labeling or by other identification. The reuse of a food, drug, or cosmetic container as a container for a hazardous substance shall be deemed to be an act which results in the hazardous substance being in a misbranded package. As used in this paragraph, the terms "food", "drug", and "cosmetic" shall have the same meanings as in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. (g) The manufacture of a misbranded package of a hazardous substance within the District of Columbia or within any territory not organized with a legislative body. (h) The use by any person to his own advantage, or revealing other than to the Secretary or officers or employees of the Depart-

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