Tex. Health & Safety Code § 445.003 · Chapter 445. MANUFACTURE, DISTRIBUTION, AND SALE OF KRATOM PRODUCTS
ADULTERATED, CONTAMINATED, AND PROHIBITED KRATOM PRODUCTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A kratom processor or kratom retailer may not prepare, distribute, sell, or offer to sell a kratom product that:
(1) is adulterated with a dangerous non-kratom substance affecting the quality or strength of the product to a degree that renders the product injurious to a consumer;
(2) is contaminated with a poisonous or otherwise deleterious non-kratom substance, including any substance designated as a controlled substance by Chapter 481 (Texas Controlled Substances Act);
(3) contains a level of 7-hydroxymitragynine in the alkaloid fraction that is greater than two percent of the overall alkaloid composition of the product; or
(4) contains any synthetic alkaloids, including synthetic 7-hydroxymitragynine and synthetically derived compounds from a kratom plant.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 2 (S.B. 497), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2023.
Redesignated from Health and Safety Code, Chapter 444 by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 204 (H.B. 1620), Sec. 22.001(22), eff. September 1, 2025.
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