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Title 16

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  1. Title 16 —Commercial Practices
  2. Chapter I —Federal Trade Commission
  3. Subchapter E —Rules, Regulations, Statement of General Policy or Interpretation and Exemptions Under the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act
  4. Part 500   View Full Text
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Title 16Commercial PracticesPart / Section
Chapter IFederal Trade Commission0 – 999
Subchapter ERules, Regulations, Statement of General Policy or Interpretation and Exemptions Under the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act500 – 503
Part 500Regulations Under Section 4 of the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act500.1 – 500.29
§ 500.1Scope of the regulations of this part.
§ 500.2Terms defined.
§ 500.3Prohibited acts, coverage, general labeling requirements, exemption procedures.
§ 500.4Statement of identity.
§ 500.5Name and place of business of manufacturer, packer or distributor.
§ 500.6Net quantity of contents declaration, location.
§ 500.7Net quantity of contents, method of expression.
§ 500.8Units of weight or mass and measure.
§ 500.9Units of weight or mass, how expressed.
§ 500.10Units of fluid measure, how expressed.
§ 500.11Measurement of commodity length, how expressed.
§ 500.12Measurement of commodities by length and width, how expressed.
§ 500.13Measurement of commodities by area measure only, how expressed.
§ 500.14Statements of cubic measure and dry measure.
§ 500.15Units of count, more than one ply.
§ 500.16Measurement of container type commodities, how expressed.
§ 500.17Fractions.
§ 500.18SI metric prefixes.
§ 500.19Conversion of SI metric quantities to inch/pound quantities and inch/pound quantities to SI metric quantities.
§ 500.20Conspicuousness.
§ 500.21Type size in relationship to the area of the principal display panel.
§ 500.22Abbreviations.
§ 500.23Expression of net quantity of contents in SI Metric units.
§ 500.24Supplemental statements.
§ 500.25Net quantity, average quantity, permitted variations.
§ 500.26Representations of servings, uses, applications.
§ 500.27Multiunit packages.
§ 500.28Variety packages.
§ 500.29Combination packages.
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