# Idaho Code § 37-115: 37-115 PROHIBITED ACTS

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URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_ID_T37_C1_S37-115

## Section

- **Citation:** Idaho Code § 37-115
- **Heading:** 37-115 PROHIBITED ACTS
- **Jurisdiction:** Idaho
- **Kind:** Statutes
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** Idaho Code / Title 37 / Chapter 1 / Section 37-115

## Text

37-115. Prohibited acts. The following acts and the causing thereof within the state of Idaho are hereby prohibited:

(a) The manufacture, sale, or delivery, holding or offering for sale of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded;

(b) The adulteration or misbranding of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic;

(c) The receipt in commerce of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded, and the delivery or proffered delivery thereof for pay or otherwise;

(d) The sale, delivery for sale, holding for sale, or offering for sale of any article in violation of section 37-124 or 37-127;

(e) The dissemination of any false advertisement;

(f) The refusal to permit entry or inspection, or to permit the taking of a sample, as authorized by section 37-133;

(g) The giving of a guaranty or undertaking which guaranty or undertaking is false, except by a person who relied on a guaranty or undertaking to the same effect signed by, and containing the name and address of, the person residing in the state of Idaho from whom he received in good faith the food, drug, device, or cosmetic;

(h) The removal or disposal of a detained or embargoed article in violation of section 37-118;

(i) 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 food, drug, device, or cosmetic, if such act is done while such article is held for sale and results in such article being misbranded;

(j) Forging, counterfeiting, simulating, or falsely representing, or without proper authority using any mark, stamp, tag, label, or other identification device authorized or required by regulations promulgated under the provisions of this act;

(k) The using, on the labeling of any drug or in any advertisement relating to such drug, of any representation or suggestion that an application with respect to such drug is effective under section 37-128, or that such drug complies with the provisions of such section.

History:

[37-115, added 1959, ch. 153, sec. 3, p. 351.]

## Nearby sections

- [Idaho Code § 37-113 37-113 SHORT TITLE.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_ID_T37_C1_S37-113.md)
- [Idaho Code § 37-114 37-114 DEFINITIONS.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_ID_T37_C1_S37-114.md)
- [Idaho Code § 37-115 37-115 PROHIBITED ACTS.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_ID_T37_C1_S37-115.md)
- [Idaho Code § 37-116 37-116 INJUNCTIONS AUTHORIZED.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_ID_T37_C1_S37-116.md)
- [Idaho Code § 37-117 37-117 VIOLATIONS — PENALTY — EXCEPTIONS.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_ID_T37_C1_S37-117.md)
- [Idaho Code § 37-117A 37-117A REPORTING AND DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS FOR EMPLOYMENT RELATED ADULTERATION OR MISAPPROPRIATION OF CERTAIN DRUGS.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_ID_T37_C1_S37-117A.md)
- [Idaho Code § 37-118 37-118 TAGGING AND DETENTION OF ARTICLE OR PRODUCT SUSPECTED OF BEING ADULTERATED OR MISBRANDED — EMBARGO AND CONDEMNATION UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS AND BY CERTAIN PROCEDURES.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_ID_T37_C1_S37-118.md)
- [Idaho Code § 37-119 37-119 PROSECUTIONS OF VIOLATIONS — RIGHT OF PARTY TO NOTICE AND PRESENTATION OF VIEWS PRIOR TO PROSECUTION.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_ID_T37_C1_S37-119.md)
- [Idaho Code § 37-121 37-121 PROMULGATION OF REASONABLE STANDARDS BY BOARD.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_ID_T37_C1_S37-121.md)
- [Idaho Code § 37-122 37-122 FOOD DEEMED ADULTERATED.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_ID_T37_C1_S37-122.md)
- [Idaho Code § 37-123 37-123 FOOD DEEMED MISBRANDED.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_ID_T37_C1_S37-123.md)
- [Idaho Code § 37-124 37-124 CONTAMINATION OF FOOD WITH MICROORGANISMS — PERMIT REGULATIONS — ACCESS TO FACTORY.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_ID_T37_C1_S37-124.md)
- [Idaho Code § 37-125 37-125 POISONOUS OR DELETERIOUS SUBSTANCE — REGULATIONS AS TO USE.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_ID_T37_C1_S37-125.md)
- [Idaho Code § 37-126 37-126 DRUGS OR DEVICES DEEMED ADULTERATED.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_ID_T37_C1_S37-126.md)

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