[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 9]
[Revised as of April 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR1302.03]

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                         TITLE 21-FOOD AND DRUGS
 
   CHAPTER II--DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
PART 1302--LABELING AND PACKAGING REQUIREMENTS FOR CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1302.03  Symbol required; exceptions.

    (a) Each commercial container of a controlled substance (except for 
a controlled substance excepted by the Administrator pursuant to 
Sec. 1308.31 of this chapter) shall have printed on the label

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the symbol designating the schedule in which such controlled substance 
is listed. Each such commercial container, if it otherwise has no label, 
must bear a label complying with the requirement of this part.
    (b) Each manufacturer shall print upon the labeling of each 
controlled substance distributed by him the symbol designating the 
schedule in which such controlled substance is listed.
    (c) The following symbols shall designate the schedule corresponding 
thereto:


                 Schedule

Schedule I................................  CI or C-I.
Schedule II...............................  CII or C-II.
Schedule III..............................  CIII or C-III.
Schedule IV...............................  CIV or C-IV.
Schedule V................................  CV or C-V.



The word ``schedule'' need not be used. No distinction need be made 
between narcotic and nonnarcotic substances.
    (d) The symbol is not required on a carton or wrapper in which a 
commercial container is held if the symbol is easily legible through 
such carton or wrapper.
    (e) The symbol is not required on a commercial container too small 
or otherwise unable to accommodate a label, if the symbol is printed on 
the box or package from which the commercial container is removed upon 
dispensing to an ultimate user.
    (f) The symbol is not required on a commercial container containing, 
or on the labeling of, a controlled substance being utilized in clinical 
research involving blind and double blind studies.

[36 FR 7785, Apr. 24, 1971, as amended at 36 FR 18731, Sept. 21, 1971. 
Redesignated at 38 FR 26609, Sept. 24, 1973]