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    <constitutionalAuthorityStatementText><![CDATA[<pre>[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 207 (Tuesday, December 8, 2020)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [<a href="https://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]By Mr. VAN DREW:H.R. 8905.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes,duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide forthe common defense and general welfare of the United States;but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniformthroughout the United States;[Page H7046]</pre>]]></constitutionalAuthorityStatementText>
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        <fullName>Rep. Van Drew, Jefferson [R-NJ-2]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>Supply Chain Security and Pharmaceutical Authentication Act of 2020</b></p> <p>This bill modifies the application of requirements for drug packaging to include certain information, such as the product's lot number and expiration date. </p> <p>Under the bill, the requirements shall apply to the packaging of the smallest or individual solid oral dosage form of the product. Currently, such requirements apply to the smallest container (which might contain multiple dosages) of the product that is intended for individual sale to a dispenser, such as a pharmacy.</p>]]></text>
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        <title>To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to reduce the threat of counterfeit drugs to the pharmaceutical supply chain, and to make the pharmaceutical supply chain more robust, while ensuring the authenticity, content, purity, and manufacturing location and batch number of drugs (including COVID-19 therapeutics and vaccines) and allowing patient verification of authenticity, and for other purposes.</title>
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