Current through the 2024 Regular Session
Section 69.04.018 - "New drug" definedThe term "new drug" means
(1) any drug the composition of which is such that such drug is not generally recognized, among experts qualified by scientific training and experience to evaluate the safety of drugs, as safe for use under the conditions prescribed, recommended, or suggested in the labeling thereof; or (2) any drug the composition of which is such that such drug, as a result of investigations to determine its safety for use under such conditions, has become so recognized, but which has not, otherwise than in such investigations, been used to a material extent or for a material time under such conditions: PROVIDED, That no drug in use on the *effective date of this chapter shall be regarded as a new drug.1945 c 257 § 19; Rem. Supp. 1945 § 6163-68.*Effective date-1945 c 257: See RCW 69.04.860.