§328-22 Duties of department. The department of health shall inquire carefully into the quality of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic manufactured, sold, or kept or exhibited or offered for sale by any person; and it may in a lawful manner procure samples thereof, submit the same to careful examination and report the result of such analysis of all or any such food, drugs, devices, or cosmetics as are adulterated, impure, or unwholesome, in contravention of the laws of the State, to the director; and the director shall make complaint with the necessary evidence through the proper authorities, against such person; provided that nothing in this part shall require the department to report for the institution of proceedings under this part, minor violations of this part, whenever it believes that the public interest will be adequately served in the circumstances by a suitable written notice or warning; provided further that whenever the department believes that the public interest will be adequately served by the issuance of a warning to the general public by virtue of the degree of adulteration, impurity, or unwholesomeness in contravention of the laws of the State present in any food, drugs, devices, or cosmetics which constitute a hazardous condition, it shall issue a warning through all available news media including television, radio, newspaper, and other available methods of communication. When the hazardous condition has been corrected, the department shall issue a statement to be made through all available news media that conditions as corrected have returned to a safe and normal level.
The department shall investigate complaints on the information of any person who lays before it satisfactory evidence of the same. [L 1941, c 318, §18; RL 1945, §2222; RL 1955, §51-22; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §19; HRS §328-22; am L 1973, c 34, §1; gen ch 1985]
Structure Hawaii Revised Statutes
328. Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics
328-3 Same; misbranding or misleading advertisement.
328-4 Same; antiseptic, germicide; new drug; contamination.
328-5 Same; "selling" includes what.
328-7 Remedies for violation of law.
328-8 Regulations to be prescribed.
328-9 Foods deemed adulterated when.
328-10 Foods deemed misbranded when.
328-10.5 Regulations for exemption from labeling requirements.
328-12 Suspension and reinstatement of permits.
328-12.4 Food establishments; use of latex gloves prohibited.
328-12.7 Display of unpackaged processed food.
328-13 Adding of poisonous or deleterious substance, regulation of.
328-14 Drugs or devices deemed adulterated when.
328-15 Drugs or devices deemed misbranded when; prescriptions excepted, when.
328-16 Drugs limited to dispensing on prescription.
328-16.2 Customized patient medication package.
328-16.5 Prescription labeling.
328-17 New drugs, regulation of sale, etc.; exceptions.
328-17.5 Principal labeler responsibility under recall of drug.
328-17.6 Out-of-state prescriptions.
328-17.7 Record of prescriptions.
328-17.8 Electronic prescription information.
328-18 Cosmetics deemed adulterated when.
328-19 Cosmetics deemed misbranded when.
328-19.1 Consumer commodities; labeling; packaging.
328-20 False advertising; exceptions.
328-21 Rules and regulations, hearings.
328-22 Duties of department.
328-23 Inspection powers of director.
328-24 Furnishing of samples to director.
328-26 Disposal of questioned articles; court orders; expenses; bond.
328-27 Perishables destroyed when.
328-28 Duties of county attorneys, prosecuting attorney.
328-30 Administrative penalties.
328-42 Department of health regulations.
328-43 Records, food to be marked.
328-45 Length of storage time.
328-47 Cold stored goods to be labeled; sales of.
328-49 What fish and when same may be put in cold storage for future sale.
328-50 Fishing on commercial fishing vessels.
328-51 Causing preventable deterioration of; penalty.
328-65 Administration and enforcement.
328-72 Flour must be enriched.
328-73 Bread, rolls, buns, standard for.
328-74 Flour, wrapped bread, rolls, standard for.
328-75 Enforcement; suspension.
328-79 Home-based agricultural producer of honey; exemption.
328-80 Home-based agricultural producer of honey; inspections.
328-92 Drug product and biological product selection.
328-96 Hawaii list of equivalent generic drug products and interchangeable biological products.
328-103 Administrative penalties.
328-106 Pharmacy benefit manager; maximum allowable cost.
328-117 Administrative penalties.
328-119 Minimum requirements for the storage and handling of prescription drugs.