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Fair Packaging and Labeling Act of 1966 (15 USC Ch. 39)

Country/Territory
United States of America
Document type
Legislation
Date
1966 (2021)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Food & nutrition
Keyword
Access-to-information Fraud Consumer protection Food quality control/food safety Internal trade International trade Packaging/labelling
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

This act concerns fair packaging and labeling. Its declared policy is that informed consumers are essential to the fair and efficient functioning of a free market economy. Packages and their labels should enable consumers to obtain accurate information as to the quantity of the contents and should facilitate value comparisons. Therefore, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress to assist consumers and manufacturers in reaching these goals in the marketing of consumer goods. It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in the packaging or labeling of any consumer commodity (as defined in this chapter) for distribution in commerce, or for any person (other than a common carrier for hire, a contract carrier for hire, or a freight forwarder for hire) engaged in the distribution in commerce of any packaged or labeled consumer commodity, to distribute or to cause to be distributed in commerce any such commodity if such commodity is contained in a package, or if there is affixed to that commodity a label, which does not conform to the provisions of this chapter and of regulations promulgated under the authority of this chapter.

Full text
English
Website
uscode.house.gov