New Mexico § 26-1-10 - Drug or device adulteration

§ 26-1-10. Drug or device adulteration

A drug or device shall be deemed to be adulterated: A. if it consists in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid or decomposed substance;

or if it has been produced, prepared, packed or held under insanitary conditions whereby

it may have been contaminated with filth, or whereby it may have been rendered injurious

to health; or if it is a drug and the methods used in, or the facilities of controls

used for, its manufacture, processing, packing or holding do not conform to or are

not operated or administered in conformity with current good manufacturing practice

to assure that such drug meets the requirements of the New Mexico Drug and Cosmetic

Act [New Mexico Drug, Device and Cosmetic Act] as to safety and has the identity and

strength, and meets the quality and purity characteristics which it purports or is

represented to possess; or if it is a drug and its container is composed, in whole

or in part, of any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the contents

injurious to health; or if it is a drug and it bears or contains for purposes of

coloring only a color additive which is unsafe within the meaning of the federal act

or it is a color additive the intended use of which in drugs is for the purposes of

coloring only, and is unsafe within the meaning of the federal act; B. if it purports to be or is represented as a drug the name of which is recognized

in an official compendium, and its strength differs from, or its quality or purity

falls below, the standard set forth in such compendium. Such determination as to strength, quality and purity shall be made in accordance

with the tests or methods of assay set forth in such compendium or in the absence

of or inadequacy of such tests or methods of assay, those prescribed under the authority

of the federal act. No drug defined in an official compendium shall be deemed to be adulterated under

this paragraph because it differs from the standard of strength, quality or purity

therefor set forth if such standard is plainly stated on its label. Whenever a drug is recognized both in the United States Pharmacopoeia and the Homeopathic

Pharmacopoeia of the United States it shall be subject to the requirements of the

United States Pharmacopoeia unless it is labeled and offered for sale as a homeopathic

drug, in which case it shall be subject to the provisions of the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia

of the United States and not those of the United States Pharmacopoeia; C. if it is not subject to the provisions of Subsection B of this section and its

strength differs from, or its purity or quality falls below, that which it purports

or is represented to possess; or D. if it is a drug and any substance has been mixed or packed therewith so as to reduce

its quality or strength; or substituted wholly or in part therefor.