---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 4538"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "4538"
heading: "Additional authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/4538"
units:
  - "Chapter 76 — Dairy Research and Promotion"
  - "Subchapter II — Dairy Research Program"
---

# §4538. Additional authority

- (a) No provision of this subchapter shall be construed to preempt or supersede any other program relating to [milk](/usc/7/4502.md?p=d) or [dairy products](/usc/7/4502.md?p=e) [research](/usc/7/4502.md?p=j) organized and operated under the laws of the [United States](/usc/7/4502.md?p=l) or any [State](/usc/7/198.md?p=5).
- (b) The provisions of this subchapter applicable to the order issued under [section 4533(b) of this title](/usc/7/4533.md?p=b) shall be applicable to any amendment to the order.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–180, title I, § 137, as added Pub. L. 99–198, title I, § 121, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1372.)