---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 336"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "336"
heading: "Report of minor violations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/336"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act"
  - "Subchapter III — Prohibited Acts and Penalties"
---

# §336. Report of minor violations


Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as requiring the [Secretary](/usc/21/321.md?p=d) to report for prosecution, or for the institution of libel or injunction proceedings, minor violations of this chapter whenever he believes that the public interest will be adequately served by a suitable written notice or warning.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 309, formerly § 306, 52 Stat. 1045; renumbered § 309, Pub. L. 102–282, § 2, May 13, 1992, 106 Stat. 150.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of Federal Security Administrator to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare [now Health and Human Services], and of Food and Drug Administration in the Department of Agriculture to Federal Security Agency, see notes set out under section 321 of this title.