---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 674"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "674"
heading: "Federal court jurisdiction of enforcement and injunction proceedings and other kinds of cases; limitations of section 607(e) of this title"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/674"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Meat Inspection"
  - "Subchapter IV — Auxiliary Provisions"
---

# §674. Federal court jurisdiction of enforcement and injunction proceedings and other kinds of cases; limitations of section 607(e) of this title


The [United States](/usc/21/601.md?p=i) district courts, the District Court of Guam, the District Court of the Virgin Islands, the highest court of American Samoa, and the [United States](/usc/21/601.md?p=i) courts of the other [Territories](/usc/21/601.md?p=g), are vested with jurisdiction specifically to enforce, and to prevent and restrain violations of, this chapter, and shall have jurisdiction in all other kinds of cases arising under this chapter, except as provided in [section 607(e) of this title](/usc/21/607.md?p=e).


## Source credit

(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title IV, § 404, as added Pub. L. 90–201, § 16, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 599.)