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Title
09
:
Commerce and Trade
Chapter
073
:
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Subchapter
003
:
PACKAGES AND LABELING
§
2672. Packages, declarations of quantity and origin; variations; exemptions
(a) Except as
otherwise provided in this chapter, any commodity in package form introduced or
delivered for introduction into or received in intrastate commerce, kept for
the purpose of sale, or offered or exposed for sale in intrastate commerce,
shall bear on the outside of the package such definite, plain, and conspicuous
declarations of:
(1) the identity
of the commodity in the package unless the same can easily be identified
through the wrapper or container;
(2) the net
quantity of the contents in terms of weight, measure, or count; and
(3) in the case
of any package kept, offered, or exposed for sale, or sold any place other than
on the premises where packed, the name and place of business of the
manufacturer, packer, or distributor as may be prescribed by regulation issued
by the secretary.
(b) In
connection with the declaration required under subdivision (a)(2) of this
section, neither the qualifying term "when packed" or any words of
similar import, nor any term qualifying a unit of weight, measure, or count
(for example, "jumbo," "giant," "full," and the
like) that tends to exaggerate the amount of commodity in a package, may be
used. Under subdivision (a)(2) of this section the Secretary may, by
regulation, establish: reasonable variations to be allowed, which may include
variations below the declared weight or measure caused by ordinary and
customary exposure, only after the commodity is introduced into intrastate commerce,
to conditions that normally occur in good distribution practice and that
unavoidably result in decreased weight or measure; exemptions as to small
packages; and exemptions as to commodities put up in variable weights or sizes
for sale intact and either customarily not sold as individual units or
customarily weighed or measured at time of sale to the consumer. (Added 1967,
No. 102, § 19, eff. April 14, 1967; amended 1991, No. 227 (Adj. Sess.), § 7;
2003, No. 42, § 2, eff. May 27, 2003.)