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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="21-256" title_number="21" title_name="Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Maryland Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act">
  <text>A person may not:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>Manufacture or sell any food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>Adulterate or misbrand any food, drug, device, or cosmetic;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>Make a food, drug, device, or cosmetic become adulterated by altering, mutilating, destroying, obliterating, or removing any part of its labeling while the food, drug, device, or cosmetic is held for sale;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>Receive in commerce any adulterated or misbranded food, drug, device, or cosmetic;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>Deliver or offer for delivery any adulterated or misbranded food, drug, device, or cosmetic, whether or not for pay;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="6">
    <text>Disseminate any false advertisement;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="7">
    <text>Sell any food in violation of any requirement imposed under § 21-211 of this subtitle;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="8">
    <text>Fail to comply with § 21-249 or § 21-250 of this subtitle by refusing to permit:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>An entry or inspection;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>The taking of a sample; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iii">
      <text>Access to or copying of any record;</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="9">
    <text>Remove or dispose of any article that is detained or restricted under § 21-253 of this subtitle; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="10">
    <text>Forge, counterfeit, simulate, falsely represent, or, without proper authority, use any mark, stamp, tag, label, or other identifying symbol that is authorized or required by any rule or regulation that is adopted under the provisions of the federal act or of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
</section>
