---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 145"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "145"
heading: "Penalties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/145"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Animals, Meats, and Meat and Dairy Products"
  - "Subchapter IV — Importation of Milk and Cream"
---

# §145. Penalties


Any [person](/usc/21/149.md?p=a) who knowingly violates any provision of this subchapter shall, in addition to all other penalties prescribed by law, be punished by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $2,000, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.


## Source credit

(Feb. 15, 1927, ch. 155, § 5, 44 Stat. 1103.)