P.R. Laws tit. 5, § 822
It is hereby prohibited to introduce, sell, or offer for sale, use, hold, store, handle or transport in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico vaccines containing living virus or naturally or artificially attenuated virus for the treatment of any animal disease, as well as any other biological product whose effective date has expired, or that is contaminated or harmful, useless or dangerous, and any biological product under handling, transportation, or storage conditions other than those recommended by its manufacturers.
Whenever the introduction of any vaccine containing living virus is necessary as being the most practical and effective means to control any disease, the existence of which may have been confirmed by the Department of Agriculture of Puerto Rico, the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico may authorize the introduction, sale, offer for sale, use, holding, storage, handling or transportation in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico of such vaccines containing living virus under the conditions that he may establish whenever he may have authentic proof that no other kind of vaccine exists, other than the living virus, for the treatment of the disease. As soon as such disease is controlled, the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico shall eliminate any introduction, sale, use, holding, storage, handling or transportation of the said vaccines containing living virus in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico is hereby empowered to establish by regulation which vaccines containing living virus or containing naturally or artificially attenuated virus shall not be allowed to be introduced, sold or offered for sale, used, held, stored, handled or transported in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, when they may serve to produce immunity against any animal disease not existing in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and when they are of a high virulence of those which in his judgment may be harmful due to their high virulence for the avicultural or cattle industry of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The regulations to such effect that the Secretary of Agriculture may approve and promulgate shall have force of law, once the requirements established by §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 3 are complied with.
History —May 25, 1961, No. 12, p. 40, § 3; June 14, 1962, No. 45, § 2; May 1, 1973, No. 14, p. 51, § 1.