---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 858"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "858"
heading: "Endangering human life while illegally manufacturing controlled substance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/858"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Drug Abuse Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter I — Control and Enforcement"
  - "Part D — Offenses and Penalties"
---

# §858. Endangering human life while illegally manufacturing controlled substance


Whoever, while manufacturing a controlled substance in violation of this subchapter, or attempting to do so, or transporting or causing to be transported materials, including chemicals, to do so, creates a substantial risk of harm to human life shall be fined in accordance with [title 18](/usc/18.md) or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–513, title II, § 417, as added Pub. L. 100–690, title VI, § 6301(a), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4370.)