499.007 Misbranded drug or
device. ---
A drug or device is misbranded:
(1) If its labeling is in any way false or
misleading.
(2) Unless, if in package form, it bears a label
containing:
(a) The name and place of business of the manufacturer or
distributor; in addition, for a medicinal drug, as defined in s.
499.003, the label must contain the name and place of business of
the manufacturer of the finished dosage form of the drug. For the
purpose of this paragraph, the finished dosage form of a medicinal
drug is that form of the drug which is, or is intended to be,
dispensed or administered to the patient and requires no further
manufacturing or processing other than packaging, reconstitution,
and labeling; and
(b) An accurate statement of the quantity of the contents
in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count; however, under
this section, reasonable variations are permitted, and the
department shall establish by rule exemptions for small
packages.
(3) If any word, statement, or other information
required by or under ss. 499.001-499.081 to appear on the label or
labeling is not prominently placed thereon with such
conspicuousness as compared with other words, statements, designs,
or devices in the labeling, and in such terms, as to render the
word, statement, or other information likely to be read and
understood under customary conditions of purchase and
use.
(4) If it is a drug and is not designated solely by a
name recognized in an official compendium, unless its label bears:
(a) The common or usual name of the drug, if any;
and
(b) In case it is fabricated from two or more ingredients,
the common or usual name and quantity of each active
ingredient.
(5) Unless its labeling bears:
(a) Adequate directions for use; and
(b) Adequate warnings against use in those pathological
conditions in which its use may be dangerous to health or against
use by children if its use may be dangerous to health, or against
unsafe dosage or methods or duration of administration or
application, in such manner and form as are necessary for the
protection of users.
(6) If it purports to be a drug the name of which is
recognized in the official compendium, unless it is packaged and
labeled as prescribed therein; however, the method of packaging may
be modified with the consent of the department.
(7) If it has been found by the department to be a
drug liable to deterioration, unless it is packaged in such form
and manner, and its label bears a statement of such precautions, as
the department by rule requires as necessary to protect the public
health. Such rule may not be established for any drug recognized
in an official compendium until the department has informed the
appropriate body charged with the revision of such compendium of
the need for such packaging or labeling requirements and that body
has failed within a reasonable time to prescribe such
requirements.
(8) If it is:
(a) A drug and its container or finished dosage form is so
made, formed, or filled as to be misleading;
(b) An imitation of another drug; or
(c) Offered for sale under the name of another
drug.
(9) If it is dangerous to health when used in the
dosage or with the frequency or duration prescribed, recommended,
or suggested in the labeling of the drug.
(10) If it is, purports to be, or is represented as a
drug composed wholly or partly of insulin, unless:
(a) It is from a batch with respect to which a certificate
has been issued pursuant to s. 506 of the federal act; and
(b) The certificate is in effect with respect to the
drug.
(11) If it is, purports to be, or is represented as a
drug composed wholly or partly of any kind of antibiotic requiring
certification under the federal act unless:
(a) It is from a batch with respect to which a certificate
has been issued pursuant to s. 507 of the federal act; and
(b) The certificate is in effect with respect to the
drug;
however, this subsection does not apply to any drug or class of
drugs exempted by regulations adopted under s. 507(c) or (d) of
the federal act.
(12) If it is a drug intended for use by man which is
a habit-forming drug or which, because of its toxicity or other
potentiality for harmful effect, or the method of its use, or the
collateral measures necessary to its use, is not safe for use
except under the supervision of a practitioner licensed by law to
administer such drugs; or which is limited by an effective
application under s. 505 of the federal act to use under the
professional supervision of a practitioner licensed by law to
prescribe such drug, unless it is dispensed only:
(a) Upon the written prescription of a practitioner
licensed by law to prescribe such drug;
(b) Upon an oral prescription of such practitioner, which
is reduced promptly to writing and filled by the pharmacist;
or
(c) By refilling any such written or oral prescription, if
such refilling is authorized by the prescriber either in the
original prescription or by oral order which is reduced promptly to
writing and filled by the pharmacist.
This subsection does not relieve any person from any
requirement prescribed by law with respect to controlled substances
as defined in the applicable federal and state laws.
(13) If it is a drug that is subject to paragraph
(12)(a), and if, at any time before it is dispensed, its label
fails to bear the statement:
(a) "Caution: Federal Law Prohibits Dispensing
Without Prescription"; or
(b) "Caution: State Law Prohibits Dispensing Without
Prescription."
(14) If it is a drug that is not subject to paragraph
(12)(a), if at any time before it is dispensed its label bears the
statement of caution required in subsection (13).
(15) If it is a color additive, the intended use of
which in or on drugs is for the purpose of coloring only, unless
its packaging and labeling are in conformity with the packaging and
labeling requirements that apply to such color additive and are
prescribed under the federal act.
A drug dispensed by filling or refilling a written or oral
prescription of a practitioner licensed by law to prescribe such
drug is exempt from the requirements of this section, except
subsections (1), (8), (10), and (11) and the packaging requirements
of subsections (6) and (7), if the drug bears a label that
contains the name and address of the dispenser or seller, the
prescription number and the date the prescription was written or
filled, the name of the prescriber and the name of the patient, and
the directions for use and cautionary statements. This exemption
does not apply to any drug dispensed in the course of the conduct
of a business of dispensing drugs pursuant to diagnosis by mail or
to any drug dispensed in violation of subsection (12). The
department may, by rule, exempt drugs subject to ss.
499.062-499.064 from subsection (12) if compliance with that
subsection is not necessary to protect the public health, safety,
and welfare.
History: s. 34, ch. 82-225; s. 107, ch. 83-218; s. 1, ch. 83-265; s.
2, ch. 84-115; ss. 11, 52, ch. 92-69.