---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 375"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "375"
heading: "Publicity"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/375"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act"
  - "Subchapter VII — General Authority"
  - "Part A — General Administrative Provisions"
---

# §375. Publicity

- (a) **Reports—** The [Secretary](/usc/21/321.md?p=d) shall cause to be published from time to time reports summarizing all judgments, decrees, and court orders which have been rendered under this chapter, including the nature of the charge and the [disposition](/usc/21/360eee.md?p=4) thereof.
- (b) **Information regarding certain goods—** The [Secretary](/usc/21/321.md?p=d) may also cause to be disseminated information regarding [food](/usc/21/321.md?p=f), [drugs](/usc/21/321.md?p=g-1), [devices](/usc/21/321.md?p=h-1), [tobacco products](/usc/21/321.md?p=rr-1), or [cosmetics](/usc/21/321.md?p=i) in situations involving, in the opinion of the [Secretary](/usc/21/321.md?p=d), imminent danger to health or gross deception of the consumer. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the [Secretary](/usc/21/321.md?p=d) from collecting, reporting, and illustrating the results of the investigations of the [Department](/usc/21/321.md?p=c).

## Source credit

(June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 705, 52 Stat. 1057; Pub. L. 111–31, div. A, title I, § 103(j), June 22, 2009, 123 Stat. 1837.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2009—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 111–31 inserted “tobacco products,” after “devices,”.

### 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.