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[CITE: 42USC263]

 
TITLE 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
    CHAPTER 6A - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
    SUBCHAPTER II - GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
    Part F - Licensing of Biological Products and Clinical Laboratories
    subpart 1 - biological products
 
-HEAD-
    Sec. 263. Preparation of biological products by Service
 
-STATUTE-
      (a) The Service may prepare for its own use any product described
    in section 262 of this title and any product necessary to carrying
    out any of the purposes of section 241 of this title.
      (b) The Service may prepare any product described in section 262
    of this title for the use of other Federal departments or agencies,
    and public or private agencies and individuals engaged in work in
    the field of medicine when such product is not available from
    establishments licensed under such section.
 
-SOURCE-
    (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, Sec. 352, 58 Stat. 703.)
 
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                           TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
      Functions of Public Health Service, Surgeon General of Public
    Health Service, and all other officers and employees of Public
    Health Service, and functions of all agencies of or in Public
    Health Service transferred to Secretary of Health, Education, and
    Welfare by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1966, eff.  June 25, 1966, 31 F.R.
    8855, 80 Stat. 1610, set out as a note under section 202 of this
    title.  Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare redesignated
    Secretary of Health and Human Services by section 509(b) of Pub. L.
    96-88 which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20,
    Education.
 
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                   SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
      This section is referred to in section 201 of this title.