Connecticut General Statutes

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 21a-91 (2026)

(Formerly Sec. 19-211). Short title and legislative intent

✓ current as of May 2026

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This chapter may be cited as the “Connecticut Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act”, and is intended to enact state legislation: (1) Which will safeguard the public health and promote the public welfare by protecting the consuming public from injury by product use and the purchasing public from injury by merchandising deceit, arising from intrastate commerce in food, drugs, devices and cosmetics; (2) which shall be uniform, as provided in this chapter, with the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and with the Federal Trade Commission Act, to the extent to which it outlaws the false advertisement of food, drugs, devices and cosmetics; and (3) which will promote uniformity of such legislation and its administration and enforcement in and throughout the United States.

(1949 Rev., S. 3929.)

History: Sec. 19-211 transferred to Sec. 21a-91 in 1983.

Annotations to former section 19-211:

Cited. 179 C. 471.

Cited. 15 CS 11; 29 CS 333.

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Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 2002–2020 · leading case: Morrissey-Manter v. Saint Francis Hosp. & Med. Ctr., 142 A.3d 363 (Conn. App. Ct. 2016).

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Morrissey-Manter v. Saint Francis Hosp. & Med. Ctr., 142 A.3d 363 (Conn. App. Ct. 2016). · cites it 4× “, now codified at General Statutes § 21a-91 et seq. In the present case, the plaintiff did not allege that she was terminated because she insisted that the defendants comply with § 19a-127n, nor that she was terminated because she reported the defendants’ lack of compliance with…”

Thibodeau v. Design Grp. One Architects, LLC, 802 A.2d 731 (Conn. 2002). · cites it 2× “, now codified at General Statutes § 21a-91 et seq. Sheets v.”

Patane v. Nestle Waters North Am., Inc. (D. Conn. 2020). · cites it 2× “The Connecticut Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (“CFDCA”), Conn. Gen. Stat. § 21a-91 et seq., provides in turn that “[a] food shall be deemed to be misbranded .”

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