---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 901"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "901"
heading: "Severability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/901"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Drug Abuse Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter I — Control and Enforcement"
  - "Part F — General Provisions"
---

# §901. Severability


If a provision of this chapter is held invalid, all valid provisions that are severable shall remain in effect. If a provision of this chapter is held invalid in one or more of its applications, the provision shall remain in effect in all its valid applications that are severable.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–513, title II, § 706, Oct. 27, 1970, 84 Stat. 1284.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 91–513, Oct. 27, 1970, 84 Stat. 1236. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 801 of this title and Tables.