---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 379d"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "379d"
heading: "Automation of Food and Drug Administration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/379d"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act"
  - "Subchapter VII — General Authority"
  - "Part A — General Administrative Provisions"
---

# §379d. Automation of Food and Drug Administration

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/21/321.md?p=d), acting through the [Commissioner](/usc/21/321.md?p=ee) of [Food](/usc/21/321.md?p=f) and [Drugs](/usc/21/321.md?p=g-1), shall automate appropriate activities of the [Food](/usc/21/321.md?p=f) and [Drug](/usc/21/321.md?p=g-1) Administration to ensure timely review of activities regulated under this chapter.
- (b) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are [authorized](/usc/21/360eee.md?p=2) to be appropriated each fiscal year such sums as are necessary to carry out this section.

## Source credit

(June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 711, formerly § 712, as added Pub. L. 101–635, title IV, § 401, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4585; renumbered § 711, Pub. L. 102–571, title I, § 106(3), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4498.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 711 of act June 25, 1938, was renumbered section 731 by Pub. L. 102–571 and is classified to section 379f of this title.