Florida Statutes
Fla. Stat. § 859.08 (2025)
Penalty for selling adulterated drugs.
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859.08 Penalty for selling adulterated drugs.—Every registered pharmacist, and the owner or proprietor of any store dealing in drugs or medicines, shall be held responsible for the quality of all drugs, chemicals, or medicines he or she may sell or dispense, with the exception of those sold in the original packages of the manufacturer and those known as proprietary; and any person who fraudulently adulterates, for the purpose of sale, any drug or medicine or sells any fraudulently adulterated drug or medicine, knowing the same to be adulterated, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083, and such adulterated drugs and medicine shall be forfeited and destroyed under the direction of the court; and if the offender be a registered pharmacist, his or her name shall be stricken from the register.
Arrestable Offenses under F.S. 859.08
M = misdemeanor · F = felony · degree: F=1st S=2nd T=3rd§859.08DRUGS-ADULTERATEDSELL ADULTERATED DRUGS
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 1983–1983 · leading case: Davis v. City of South Bay, 433 So. 2d 1364 (Fla. 4th DCA 1983).
Davis v. City of South Bay, 433 So. 2d 1364 (Fla. 4th DCA 1983). “, Section 859.08, Florida Statutes (1981) [adulterated drugs and medicine destroyed under the direction of the court], Section 562.”
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