1. A. The board may cause to be published from time to time reports summarizing all judgments, decrees and court orders which have been rendered, including the nature of the charge and the disposition thereof.
2. B. The board may also cause to be disseminated such information regarding drugs, devices and cosmetics as the board deems necessary in the interest of the public health and the protection of the consumer against fraud. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the board from collecting, reporting and illustrating the results of the investigations of the board.

History: 1953 Comp., § 54-6-46, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 23, § 21.

ANNOTATIONS

Generally. — A statute such as this one authorizes or permits the pharmacy board to make public, through the pharmaceutical association drug store "El Boticario," an item pertaining to the sale of a legendary drug to a nondrug store, if a conviction or convictions have been obtained in the courts of the state of New Mexico, but not otherwise. 1953 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 53-5865 (opinion rendered under former law).

The board is permitted and authorized to disseminate all reports and other information, and the fact that the firms, persons or agencies named in said item are published in an outside publication would not incriminate the board or agency mentioned in all cases where conviction or convictions have been obtained in the courts of this state, but not otherwise. 1953 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 53-5865 (opinion rendered under former law).