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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 26. FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS · Chapter 3. STANDARDS, LABELING, AND ADULTERATION OF DRUGS AND COSMETICS

26-3-22. Other laws unaffected by chapter.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    This chapter shall be cumulative and supplemental to any and all existing laws relating to the subject matter of drugs. Specifically, nothing contained in this chapter shall be so construed as to relieve any person, firm, or corporation from complying with any requirements as prescribed by Chapter 4 of this title, Article 3 of Chapter 13 of Title 16, the “Dangerous Drug Act,” Article 2 of Chapter 13 of Title 16, the “Georgia Controlled Substances Act,” or Title 21 C.F.R. 210, the federal “current good manufacturing practices in manufacturing, processing, packing, or holding of drugs: general”; provided, however, that drug analysis equipment used to determine whether a controlled substance or its packaging has been adulterated shall not be considered a drug related object as defined by Article 2 of Chapter 13 of Title 16.#

  2. (b)

    Nothing contained in this chapter shall amend, alter, supersede, or replace the laws of this state relative to feed, food, animal remedies, hog cholera serum or virus, drugs permitted to be added to feeds, bottling supplies, nor the duty and authority of the Commissioner of Agriculture.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1933, § 79A-1018, enacted by Ga. L. 1967, p. 296, § 1; Ga. L. 1986, p. 1555, § 8; Ga. L. 1999, p. 81, § 26; Ga. L. 2022, p. 809, § 8/HB 1175; Ga. L. 2023, p. 730, § 4(b)(14)/HB 475, effective July 1, 2023; Ga. L. 2025, p. 474, § 1/SB 6, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, substituted “drug analysis” for “any testing”, inserted “or its packaging” following “a controlled substance”, and deleted “and contains a synthetic opioid” following “been adulterated” in subsection (a).

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t25-t26-(v21)-pdf.pdf, Volume V21, 2023 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 57 to 58; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 dee9b563c5d6.