---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 645"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "645"
heading: "Federal provisions applicable to State or Territorial business transactions of a local nature and not subject to local authority"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/645"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Meat Inspection"
  - "Subchapter II — Meat Processors and Related Industries"
---

# §645. Federal provisions applicable to State or Territorial business transactions of a local nature and not subject to local authority


The authority conferred on the [Secretary](/usc/21/601.md?p=a) by section [642](/usc/21/642.md), [643](/usc/21/643.md), or [644](/usc/21/644.md) of this title with respect to [persons](/usc/21/379j–21.md?p=k-10), [firms](/usc/21/601.md?p=b), and corporations engaged in the specified kinds of business in or for [commerce](/usc/21/601.md?p=h) may be exercised with respect to [persons](/usc/21/379j–21.md?p=k-10), [firms](/usc/21/601.md?p=b), or corporations engaged, in any [State](/usc/21/601.md?p=f) or organized [Territory](/usc/21/601.md?p=g), in such kinds of business but not in or for [commerce](/usc/21/601.md?p=h), whenever the [Secretary](/usc/21/601.md?p=a) determines, after consultation with an appropriate advisory committee provided for in [section 661 of this title](/usc/21/661.md), that the [State](/usc/21/601.md?p=f) or [territory](/usc/21/601.md?p=g) does not have at least equal authority under its laws or such authority is not exercised in a manner to effectuate the purposes of this chapter including the [State](/usc/21/601.md?p=f) providing for the [Secretary](/usc/21/601.md?p=a) or his representative being afforded access to such places of business and the [facilities](/usc/21/350g.md?p=o-2), inventories, and records thereof, and the taking of reasonable samples, where he determines necessary in carrying out his responsibilities under this chapter; and in such case the provisions of section [642](/usc/21/642.md), [643](/usc/21/643.md), or [644](/usc/21/644.md) of this title, respectively, shall apply to such [persons](/usc/21/379j–21.md?p=k-10), [firms](/usc/21/601.md?p=b), and corporations to the same extent and in the same manner as if they were engaged in such business in or for [commerce](/usc/21/601.md?p=h) and the transactions involved were in [commerce](/usc/21/601.md?p=h).


## Source credit

(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title II, § 205, as added Pub. L. 90–201, § 14, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 594.)