California Codes, Business and Professions Code - BPC, Division 2 — Healing Arts, Chapter 9 — Pharmacy, Article 2 — Definitions, Section 4025

“Drug” means any of the following:

(a) Articles recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official National Formulary or official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or any supplement of any of them.

(b) Articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in humans or other animals.

(c) Articles (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or other animals.

(d) Articles intended for use as a component of any article specified in subdivision (a), (b), or (c).

Notes

Defines “drug” to include articles recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, National Formulary, Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia, or their supplements; articles intended to diagnose, cure, mitigate, treat, or prevent disease; nonfood articles intended to affect body structure or function; and articles intended as components of any such article.

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