Washington StatutesTitle 69 - Food, drugs, cosmetics, and poisons
- 69.04 - Intrastate commerce in food, drugs, and cosmetics.
- 69.04.001 - Statement of purpose.
- 69.04.002 - Introductory.
- 69.04.003 - "Federal act" defined.
- 69.04.004 - "Intrastate commerce."
- 69.04.005 - "Sale."
- 69.04.006 - "Director."
- 69.04.007 - "Person."
- 69.04.008 - "Food."
- 69.04.009 - "Drugs."
- 69.04.010 - "Device."
- 69.04.011 - "Cosmetic."
- 69.04.012 - "Official compendium."
- 69.04.013 - "Label."
- 69.04.014 - "Immediate container."
- 69.04.015 - "Labeling."
- 69.04.016 - "Misleading labeling or advertisement," how determined.
- 69.04.017 - "Antiseptic" as germicide.
- 69.04.018 - "New drug" defined.
- 69.04.019 - "Advertisement."
- 69.04.020 - "Contaminated with filth."
- 69.04.021 - "Package."
- 69.04.022 - "Pesticide chemical."
- 69.04.023 - "Raw agricultural commodity."
- 69.04.024 - "Food additive," "safe."
- 69.04.025 - "Color additive," "color."
- 69.04.040 - Prohibited acts.
- 69.04.050 - Remedy by injunction.
- 69.04.060 - Criminal penalty for violations.
- 69.04.070 - Additional penalty.
- 69.04.080 - Avoidance of penalty.
- 69.04.090 - Liability of disseminator of advertisement.
- 69.04.100 - Condemnation of adulterated or misbranded article.
- 69.04.110 - Embargo of articles.
- 69.04.120 - Procedure on embargo.
- 69.04.123 - Exception to petition requirement under RCW 69.04.120.
- 69.04.130 - Petitions may be consolidated.
- 69.04.140 - Claimant entitled to sample.
- 69.04.150 - Damages not recoverable if probable cause existed.
- 69.04.160 - Prosecutions.
- 69.04.170 - Minor infractions.
- 69.04.180 - Proceedings to be in name of state.
- 69.04.190 - Standards may be prescribed by regulations.
- 69.04.200 - Conformance with federal standards.
- 69.04.205 - Bacon -- Packaging at retail to reveal quality and leanness.
- 69.04.206 - Bacon -- Rules, regulations and standards -- Withholding packaging use -- Hearing -- Final determination -- Appeal.
- 69.04.207 - Bacon -- Effective date.
- 69.04.210 - Food -- Adulteration by poisonous or deleterious substance.
- 69.04.220 - Food -- Adulteration by abstraction, addition, substitution, etc.
- 69.04.231 - Food -- Adulteration by color additive.
- 69.04.240 - Confectionery -- Adulteration.
- 69.04.245 - Poultry -- Improper use of state's geographic outline.
- 69.04.250 - Food -- Misbranding by false label, etc.
- 69.04.260 - Packaged food -- Misbranding.
- 69.04.270 - Food -- Misbranding by lack of prominent label.
- 69.04.280 - Food -- Misbranding for nonconformity with standard of identity.
- 69.04.290 - Food -- Misbranding for nonconformity with standard of quality.
- 69.04.300 - Food -- Misbranding for nonconformity with standard of fill.
- 69.04.310 - Food -- Misbranding by failure to show usual name and ingredients.
- 69.04.315 - Halibut -- Misbranding by failure to show proper name.
- 69.04.320 - Food -- Misbranding by failure to show dietary properties.
- 69.04.330 - Food -- Misbranding by failure to show artificial flavoring, coloring, etc.
- 69.04.331 - Popcorn sold by theaters or commercial food service establishments -- Misbranded if the use of butter or ingredients of butter-like flavoring not disclosed.
- 69.04.333 - Poultry and poultry products -- Label to indicate if product frozen.
- 69.04.334 - Turkeys -- Label requirement as to grading.
- 69.04.335 - RCW 69.04.333 and 69.04.334 subject to enforcement and penalty provisions of chapter.
- 69.04.340 - Natural vitamin, mineral, or dietary properties need not be shown.
- 69.04.350 - Permits to manufacture or process certain foods.
- 69.04.360 - Suspension of permit.
- 69.04.370 - Right of access for inspection.
- 69.04.380 - Food exempt if in transit for completion purposes.
- 69.04.390 - Regulations permitting tolerance of harmful matter.
- 69.04.392 - Regulations permitting tolerance of harmful matter -- Pesticide chemicals in or on raw agricultural commodities.
- 69.04.394 - Regulations permitting tolerance of harmful matter -- Food additives.
- 69.04.396 - Regulations permitting tolerance of harmful matter -- Color additives.
- 69.04.398 - Purpose of RCW 69.04.110, 69.04.392, 69.04.394, 69.04.396 -- Uniformity with federal laws and regulations -- Application to production of kosher food products -- Adoption of rules.
- 69.04.399 - Civil penalty for violations of standards for component parts of fluid dairy products adopted under RCW 69.04.398.
- 69.04.400 - Conformance with federal regulations.
- 69.04.410 - Drugs -- Adulteration by harmful substances.
- 69.04.420 - Drugs -- Adulteration for failure to comply with compendium standard.
- 69.04.430 - Drugs -- Adulteration for lack of represented purity or quality.
- 69.04.440 - Drugs -- Adulteration by admixture or substitution of ingredients.
- 69.04.450 - Drugs -- Misbranding by false labeling.
- 69.04.460 - Packaged drugs -- Misbranding.
- 69.04.470 - Drugs -- Misbranding by lack of prominent label.
- 69.04.480 - Drugs -- Misbranding for failure to state content of habit forming drug.
- 69.04.490 - Drugs -- Misbranding by failure to show usual name and ingredients.
- 69.04.500 - Drugs -- Misbranding by failure to give directions for use and warnings.
- 69.04.510 - Drugs -- Misbranding for improper packaging and labeling.
- 69.04.520 - Drugs -- Misbranding for failure to show possibility of deterioration.
- 69.04.530 - Drugs -- Misbranding by misleading representation.
- 69.04.540 - Drugs -- Misbranding by sale without prescription of drug requiring it.
- 69.04.550 - Drugs exempt if in transit for completion purposes.
- 69.04.560 - Dispensing of certain drugs exempt.
- 69.04.565 - DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) authorized.
- 69.04.570 - Introduction of new drug.
- 69.04.580 - Application for introduction.
- 69.04.590 - Effective date of application.
- 69.04.600 - Denial of application.
- 69.04.610 - Revocation of denial.
- 69.04.620 - Service of order of denial.
- 69.04.630 - Drug for investigational use exempt.
- 69.04.640 - Court review of denial.
- 69.04.650 - Dispensing of certain drugs exempt.
- 69.04.660 - Federally licensed drugs exempt.
- 69.04.670 - Cosmetics -- Adulteration by injurious substances.
- 69.04.680 - Cosmetics -- Misbranding by false label, etc.
- 69.04.690 - Cosmetics -- Misbranding by lack of prominent label.
- 69.04.700 - Cosmetics exempt if in transit for completion purposes.
- 69.04.710 - Advertisement, when deemed false.
- 69.04.720 - Advertising of cure of certain diseases deemed false.
- 69.04.730 - Enforcement, where vested -- Regulations.
- 69.04.740 - Regulations to conform with federal regulations.
- 69.04.750 - Hearings.
- 69.04.761 - Hearing on proposed regulation -- Procedure.
- 69.04.770 - Review on petition prior to effective date.
- 69.04.780 - Investigations -- Samples -- Right of entry -- Verified statements.
- 69.04.790 - Owner may obtain part of sample.
- 69.04.800 - Access to records of other agencies.
- 69.04.810 - Access to records of intrastate carriers.
- 69.04.820 - Right of entry to factories, warehouses, vehicles, etc.
- 69.04.830 - Publication of reports of judgments, orders and decrees.
- 69.04.840 - Dissemination of information.
- 69.04.845 - Severability -- 1945 c 257.
- 69.04.850 - Construction -- 1945 c 257.
- 69.04.860 - Effective date of chapter -- 1945 c 257.
- 69.04.870 - Short title.
- 69.04.880 - Civil penalty.
- 69.04.900 - Perishable packaged food -- Pull date labeling -- Definitions.
- 69.04.905 - Perishable packaged food -- Pull date labeling -- Required.
- 69.04.910 - Perishable packaged food -- Pull date labeling -- Selling or trading goods beyond pull date -- Repackaging to substitute for original date -- Exception.
- 69.04.915 - Perishable packaged food -- Pull date labeling -- Storage -- Rules and regulations.
- 69.04.920 - Perishable packaged food -- Pull date labeling -- Penalties.
- 69.04.928 - Seafood labeling requirements -- Pamphlet -- Direct retail endorsement.
- 69.04.930 - Frozen fish and meat -- Labeling requirements -- Exceptions.
- 69.04.932 - Salmon labeling -- Definitions.
- 69.04.933 - Salmon labeling -- Identification of species -- Exceptions -- Penalty.
- 69.04.934 - Salmon labeling -- Identification as farm-raised or commercially caught -- Exceptions -- Penalty.
- 69.04.935 - Salmon labeling -- Rules for identification and enforcement.
- 69.04.940 - Imported lamb products -- Labeling requirements.
- 69.04.950 - Transport of bulk foods -- Definitions.
- 69.04.955 - Transport of bulk foods -- Prohibitions -- Exemption.
- 69.04.960 - Transport of bulk foods -- Compatible substances -- Cleaning vehicle or vessel -- Vehicle or vessel marking.
- 69.04.965 - Transport of bulk foods -- Transports not constituting violations.
- 69.04.970 - Transport of bulk foods -- Substances rendering vehicle or vessel permanently unsuitable for bulk food transport -- Procedures to rehabilitate vehicles and vessels.
- 69.04.975 - Transport of bulk foods -- Rehabilitation of vehicles and vessels -- Inspection -- Certification -- Marking -- Costs.
- 69.04.980 - Transport of bulk foods -- Penalties.
- 69.06 - Food and beverage establishment workers' permits.
- 69.07 - Washington food processing act.
- 69.10 - Food storage warehouses.
- 69.25 - Washington wholesome eggs and egg products act.
- 69.25.010 - Legislative finding.
- 69.25.020 - Definitions.
- 69.25.030 - Purpose -- Certain federal rules adopted by reference -- Hearing, notice by director -- Adoption of rules by director.
- 69.25.040 - Application of administrative procedure act.
- 69.25.050 - Egg handler's or dealer's license and number -- Branch license -- Application, fee, posting required, procedure.
- 69.25.060 - Egg handler's or dealer's license -- Late renewal fee.
- 69.25.070 - Egg handler's or dealer's license -- Denial, suspension, revocation, or conditional issuance.
- 69.25.080 - Continuous inspection at processing plants -- Exemptions -- Condemnation and destruction of adulterated eggs and egg products -- Reprocessing -- Appeal -- Inspections of egg handlers.
- 69.25.090 - Sanitary operation of official plants -- Inspection refused if requirements not met.
- 69.25.100 - Egg products -- Pasteurization -- Labeling requirements -- False or misleading labels or containers -- Director may order use of withheld -- Hearing, determination, and appeal.
- 69.25.110 - Prohibited acts and practices.
- 69.25.120 - Director to cooperate with other agencies -- May conduct examinations.
- 69.25.130 - Eggs or egg products not intended for use as human food -- Identification or denaturing required.
- 69.25.140 - Records required, access to and copying of.
- 69.25.150 - Penalties -- Liability of employer -- Defense.
- 69.25.155 - Interference with person performing official duties.
- 69.25.160 - Notice of violation -- May take place of prosecution.
- 69.25.170 - Exemptions permitted by rule of director.
- 69.25.180 - Limiting entry of eggs and egg products into official plants.
- 69.25.190 - Embargo of eggs or egg products in violation of this chapter -- Time limit -- Removal of official marks.
- 69.25.200 - Embargo -- Petition for court order affirming -- Removal of embargo or destruction or correction and release -- Court costs, fees, administrative expenses -- Bond may be required.
- 69.25.210 - Embargo -- Order affirming not required, when.
- 69.25.220 - Embargo -- Consolidation of petitions.
- 69.25.230 - Embargo -- Sampling of article.
- 69.25.240 - Condemnation -- Recovery of damages restricted.
- 69.25.250 - Assessment -- Rate, applicability, time of payment -- Reports -- Contents, frequency.
- 69.25.260 - Assessment -- Prepayment by purchase of egg seals -- Permit for printing seal on containers or labels.
- 69.25.270 - Assessment -- Monthly payment -- Audit -- Failure to pay, penalty.
- 69.25.280 - Assessment -- Use of proceeds.
- 69.25.290 - Assessment -- Exclusions.
- 69.25.300 - Transfer of moneys in state egg account.
- 69.25.310 - Containers -- Marking required -- Obliteration of previous markings required for reuse -- Temporary use of another handler's or dealer's permanent number -- Penalty.
- 69.25.320 - Records required, additional -- Sales to retailer or food service -- Exception -- Defense to charged violation -- Sale of eggs deteriorated due to storage time -- Requirements for storage,
- 69.25.900 - Savings.
- 69.25.910 - Chapter is cumulative and nonexclusive.
- 69.25.920 - Severability -- 1975 1st ex.s. c 201.
- 69.25.930 - Short title.
- 69.28 - Honey.
- 69.28.020 - Enforcement power and duty of director and agents.
- 69.28.025 - Rules and regulations have force of law.
- 69.28.030 - Rules prescribing standards.
- 69.28.040 - Right to enter, inspect, and take samples.
- 69.28.050 - Containers to be labeled.
- 69.28.060 - Requisites of markings.
- 69.28.070 - "Marked" defined -- When honey need not be marked.
- 69.28.080 - Purchaser to be advised of standards -- Exceptions.
- 69.28.090 - Forgery, simulation, etc., of marks, labels, etc., unlawful.
- 69.28.095 - Unlawful mutilation or removal of seals, marks, etc., used by director.
- 69.28.100 - Marks for "slack-filled" container.
- 69.28.110 - Use of used containers.
- 69.28.120 - Floral source labels.
- 69.28.130 - Adulterated honey -- Sale or offer unlawful.
- 69.28.133 - Nonconforming honey -- Sale or offer unlawful.
- 69.28.135 - Warning-tagged honey -- Movement prohibited.
- 69.28.140 - Possession of unlawful honey as evidence.
- 69.28.170 - Inspectors -- Prosecutions.
- 69.28.180 - Violation of rules and regulations unlawful.
- 69.28.185 - Penalty.
- 69.28.190 - "Director" defined.
- 69.28.200 - "Container" defined.
- 69.28.210 - "Subcontainer" defined.
- 69.28.220 - "Section box" defined.
- 69.28.230 - "Clean and sound containers" defined.
- 69.28.240 - "Pack", "packing", or "packed" defined.
- 69.28.250 - "Label" defined.
- 69.28.260 - "Person" defined.
- 69.28.270 - "Slack-filled" defined.
- 69.28.280 - "Deceptive arrangement" defined.
- 69.28.290 - "Mislabeled" defined.
- 69.28.300 - "Placard" defined.
- 69.28.310 - "Honey" defined.
- 69.28.320 - "Comb-honey" defined.
- 69.28.330 - "Extracted honey" defined.
- 69.28.340 - "Crystallized honey" defined.
- 69.28.350 - "Honeydew" defined.
- 69.28.360 - "Foreign material" defined.
- 69.28.370 - "Foreign honey" defined.
- 69.28.380 - "Adulterated honey" defined.
- 69.28.390 - "Serious damage" defined.
- 69.28.400 - Labeling requirements for artificial honey or mixtures containing honey.
- 69.28.410 - Embargo on honey or product -- Notice by director -- Removal.
- 69.28.420 - Embargo on honey or product -- Court order affirming, required -- Order for destruction or correction and release -- Bond.
- 69.28.430 - Consolidation of petitions presenting same issue and claimant.
- 69.28.440 - Sample of honey or product may be obtained -- Procedure.
- 69.28.450 - Recovery of damages barred if probable cause for embargo.
- 69.28.900 - Severability -- 1939 c 199.
- 69.28.910 - Short title.
- 69.30 - Sanitary control of shellfish.
- 69.36 - Washington caustic poison act of 1929.
- 69.38 - Poisons -- Sales and manufacturing.
- 69.40 - Poisons and dangerous drugs.
- 69.41 - Legend drugs -- Prescription drugs.
- 69.43 - Precursor drugs.
- 69.43.010 - Report to state board of pharmacy -- List of substances -- Modification of list -- Identification of purchasers -- Report of transactions -- Penalties.
- 69.43.020 - Receipt of substance from source outside state -- Report -- Penalty.
- 69.43.030 - Exemptions.
- 69.43.035 - Suspicious transactions--Report--Penalty.
- 69.43.040 - Reporting form.
- 69.43.043 - Recordkeeping requirements--Penalty.
- 69.43.048 - Reporting and recordkeeping requirements--Submission of computer readable data, copies of federal reports.
- 69.43.050 - Rules.
- 69.43.060 - Theft -- Missing quantity -- Reporting.
- 69.43.070 - Sale, transfer, or furnishing of substance for unlawful purpose -- Receipt of substance with intent to use unlawfully -- Class B felony.
- 69.43.080 - False statement in report or record -- Class C felony.
- 69.43.090 - Permit to sell, transfer, furnish, or receive substance -- Exemptions -- Application for permit -- Fee -- Renewal -- Penalty.
- 69.43.100 - Refusal, suspension, or revocation of a manufacturer's or wholesaler's permit.
- 69.43.105 - Ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, phenylpropanolamine -- Sales restrictions -- Record of transaction -- Exceptions -- Penalty.
- 69.43.110 - Ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, phenylpropanolamine--Sales restrictions -- Electronic sales tracking system--Penalty.
- 69.43.120 - Ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, phenylpropanolamine--Possession of more than fifteen grams--Penalty--Exceptions.
- 69.43.130 - Exemptions--Pediatric products--Products exempted by the state board of pharmacy.
- 69.43.135 - Iodine, methylsulfonylmethane -- Sales restrictions -- Recording of transactions -- Penalties.
- 69.43.140 - Civil penalty--State board of pharmacy waiver.
- 69.43.150 - Application of chapter to local government.
- 69.43.160 - Ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, phenylpropanolamine--Methods to prevent sales violations--Department of health preparation of sign summarizing prohibitions.
- 69.43.165 - Ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, phenylpropanolamine -- Electronic sales tracking system -- Board of pharmacy authority to adopt rules.
- 69.43.168 - Pharmacy, shopkeeper, or itinerant vendor -- Electronic sales tracking system -- Liability.
- 69.43.180 - Expansion of log requirements -- Petition by law enforcement.
- 69.43.190 - Products found at methamphetamine sites -- Report.
- 69.45 - Drug samples.
- 69.50 - Uniform controlled substances act.
- 69.51 - Controlled substances therapeutic research act.
- 69.51A - Medical marijuana.
- 69.52 - Imitation controlled substances.
- 69.53 - Use of buildings for unlawful drugs.
- 69.55 - Ammonia.
- 69.60 - Over-the-counter medications.
- 69.80 - Food donation and distribution -- Liability.
- 69.90 - Kosher food products.
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