---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 211"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "211"
heading: "Preservation of originals of prescriptions compounded and copies thereof; inspection of prescriptions by consular officers; marking containers of drugs"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/211"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Practice of Pharmacy and Sale of Poisons in Consular Districts in China"
---

# §211. Preservation of originals of prescriptions compounded and copies thereof; inspection of prescriptions by consular officers; marking containers of drugs


Every [person](/usc/21/379j–21.md?p=k-10), firm, or corporation whose permanent allegiance is due to the United States owning, partly owning, or managing a [drug](/usc/21/321.md?p=g-1) store or pharmacy shall keep in his place of business a suitable book or file, in which shall be preserved for a period of not less than three years the original of every prescription compounded or dispensed at such store or pharmacy, or a copy of such prescription, except when the preservation of the original is required by section [207](/usc/21/207.md) or [208](/usc/21/208.md) of this title. Upon request the owner, part owner, or manager of such store shall furnish to the prescribing physician, or to the [person](/usc/21/379j–21.md?p=k-10) for whom such prescription was compounded or dispensed, a true and correct copy thereof. Any prescription required by section [207](/usc/21/207.md) or [208](/usc/21/208.md) of this title, and any prescription for, or register of sales of, substances mentioned in such sections shall at all times be open to inspection by duly [authorized](/usc/21/360eee–1.md?p=a-6) consular officers in the consular districts of the United States in China. No [person](/usc/21/379j–21.md?p=k-10), firm, or corporation whose permanent allegiance is due to the United States shall, in a consular district, compound or dispense any [drug](/usc/21/321.md?p=g-1) or [drugs](/usc/21/321.md?p=g-1) or deliver the same to any other [person](/usc/21/379j–21.md?p=k-10) without marking on the container thereof the name of the [drug](/usc/21/321.md?p=g-1) or [drugs](/usc/21/321.md?p=g-1) contained therein and directions for using the same.


## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1915, ch. 74, § 9, 38 Stat. 821.)