# Federal — retail sale, statutory logbook requirement — Pseudoephedrine purchase limits: federal gram limits and stricter state rules

For Federal, jurisdiction is Federal — retail sale, statutory logbook requirement; prescription or other restriction is The seller maintains, in accordance with criteria issued by the Attorney General, a written or electronic list of such sales; statute or regulation citation is 21 U.S.C. 830(e)(1)(A)(iii), recorded from its source on 2026-08-18.

- **Jurisdiction:** Federal — retail sale, statutory logbook requirement _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Prescription or other restriction:** The seller maintains, in accordance with criteria issued by the Attorney General, a written or electronic list of such sales _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statute or regulation citation:** 21 U.S.C. 830(e)(1)(A)(iii) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> The seller maintains, in accordance with criteria issued by the Attorney General, a written or electronic list of such sales that identifies the products by name, the quantity sold, the names and addresses of purchasers, and the dates and times of the sales (which list is referred to in this subsection as the “logbook”), except that such requirement does not apply to any purchase by an individual of a single sales package if that package contains not more than 60 milligrams of pseudoephedrine.

## Source

- https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/830

Last verified: 2026-08-18. Review by: 2027-08-18.
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