Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 24:5A-6

  • Cosmetic: means (1) articles intended to be rubbed, poured, sprinkled, or sprayed on, introduced into, or otherwise applied to the human body or any part thereof for cleansing, beautifying, promoting attractiveness, or altering the appearance, and (2) articles intended for use as a component of any such articles. See New Jersey Statutes 24:1-1
  • Drug: means (1) articles recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them. See New Jersey Statutes 24:1-1
  • Food: means (1) articles used for food or drink for man or other animals (2) chewing gum and (3) articles used for components of any such article. See New Jersey Statutes 24:1-1
  • Labeling: means all labels and other written, printed or graphic matter (1) upon an article or any of its containers or wrappers, or (2) accompanying such article. See New Jersey Statutes 24:1-1
  • person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
  • State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
The following acts and the causing thereof are hereby prohibited:

(a) The selling, offering for sale or keeping for sale within this State of any misbranded package.

(b) The alteration, mutilation, destruction, obliteration or removal of the whole or any part of the labeling of, or the doing of any other act with respect to, a hazardous substance being held for sale if such act results in the hazardous substance being in a misbranded package.

(c) The selling, offering for sale or keeping for sale of a hazardous substance in a reused food, drug or cosmetic container or in a container which though not a reused container is identifiable as a food, drug or cosmetic container by its labeling or by other identification.

(d) The use by any person to his own advantage, or revealing other than to the commissioner or officers or employees of the department, or to the courts when relevant in any judicial proceeding under this act, of any information acquired concerning any method or process which as a trade secret is entitled to protection.

L.1966, c. 262, s. 6.