---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 678"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "678"
heading: "Non-Federal jurisdiction of federally regulated matters; prohibition of additional or different requirements for establishments with inspection services and as to marking, labeling, packaging, and ingredients; recordkeeping and related requirements; concurrent jurisdiction over distribution for human food purposes of adulterated or misbranded and imported articles; other matters"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/678"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Meat Inspection"
  - "Subchapter IV — Auxiliary Provisions"
---

# §678. Non-Federal jurisdiction of federally regulated matters; prohibition of additional or different requirements for establishments with inspection services and as to marking, labeling, packaging, and ingredients; recordkeeping and related requirements; concurrent jurisdiction over distribution for human food purposes of adulterated or misbranded and imported articles; other matters


Requirements within the scope of this chapter with respect to premises, facilities and operations of any establishment at which inspection is provided under subchapter I of this chapter, which are in addition to, or different than those made under this chapter may not be imposed by any [State](/usc/21/601.md?p=f) or [Territory](/usc/21/601.md?p=g) or the District of Columbia, except that any such jurisdiction may impose recordkeeping and other requirements within the scope of [section 642 of this title](/usc/21/642.md), if consistent therewith, with respect to any such establishment. Marking, [labeling](/usc/21/601.md?p=p), packaging, or ingredient requirements in addition to, or different than, those made under this chapter may not be imposed by any [State](/usc/21/601.md?p=f) or [Territory](/usc/21/601.md?p=g) or the District of Columbia with respect to articles [prepared](/usc/21/601.md?p=l) at any establishment under inspection in accordance with the requirements under subchapter I of this chapter, but any [State](/usc/21/601.md?p=f) or [Territory](/usc/21/601.md?p=g) or the District of Columbia may, consistent with the requirements under this chapter, exercise concurrent jurisdiction with the [Secretary](/usc/21/601.md?p=a) over articles required to be inspected under said subchapter I, for the purpose of preventing the distribution for human food purposes of any such articles which are [adulterated](/usc/21/601.md?p=m) or [misbranded](/usc/21/601.md?p=n) and are outside of such an establishment, or, in the case of imported articles which are not at such an establishment, after their entry into the [United States](/usc/21/601.md?p=i). This chapter shall not preclude any [State](/usc/21/601.md?p=f) or [Territory](/usc/21/601.md?p=g) or the District of Columbia from making requirement[^1] or taking other action, consistent with this chapter, with respect to any other matters regulated under this chapter.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “requirements”.

## Source credit

(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title IV, § 408, as added Pub. L. 90–201, § 16, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 600.)