Ordinance 4087 - Laserfiche WebLink

• • B.7.3 WEIGHT OR MEASURE TO BE SUPPLEMENTED. A declaration of quantity in terms of weight or measure shall be supplemented by a declaration of the count or size of the individual units of the commodity, unless a declaration of weight or measure alone is fully informative to the consumer. B.8 CHARACTER OF DECLARATION. A declaration of quantity shall express average net quantity: Provided, That a declaration may express minimum quantity when such declaration is definitely so identified by the addition of some such words as "minimum quantity? or 'snot less than." B.9 QUALIFICATION OF DECLARATION PROHIBITED. In no case shall a declaration of quantity be qualified by the addition of the words 'When packed" or any words of similar import, nor shall any unit of weight, measure, or count be qualified by any term (such as ' jumbo," ' giant," full," or the like) that tends to exaggerate the amount of commodity. C. DECLARATION OF RESPONSIBILITY. Any package kept, offered, or ex- posed for sale, or sold, at any place other than on the premises where packed, shall bear on the outside of the package the name and address of the manu- facturer, packer, or distributor. D. LANGUAGE. All information required to appear on a package shall appear thereon in the English language. E. PROMINENCE AND PLACEMENT. All information required to appear on a package shall be prominent, definite, and plain, and shall be conspicuous as to size and style of letters and numbers and as to color of letters and numbers in contrast to color of background. Such information shall appear on each part or panel of the package that is likely to be displayed when the package is exposed or offered for sale, or sold, under customary marketing conditions. Any required information that is either in hand lettering or hand script shall be entirely clear and equal to printing in legibility. F. INFORMATION REQUIRED ON OUTSIDE CONTAINER. All information required to appear on a package shall also appear on any outside container or wrapper that is used, unless such container or wrapper is transparent and the inform- ation on the package is easily legible through such outside container or wrapper. G. VARIATIONS TO BE ALLOWED. G.1. PACKAGING VARIATIONS. G. 1.1. VARIATIONS FROM DECLARED NET QUANTITY. Variations from the declared net weight, measure, or count shall be permitted when caused by unavoidable deviations in weighing, measuring, or counting the contents of individual packages that occur in good packaging practice, but such variations shall not be permitted to such extent that the average of the quantities in the packages of a particular commodity comprising either a shipment or other delivery of the commodity or a lot of the commodity that is kept, offered, or exposed for sale, or sold, is below the quantity state, and no unreasonable shortage in any package shall be permitted, even though overages in other packages in the same shipment, delivery, or lot compensate for such shortage. Variations above the declared quantity shall not be unreasonably large. G.1.2. VARIATIONS FROM DECLARED MINIMUM QUANTITY. Where the minimum quantity is declared, no packaging variations below the declared minimum shall be permitted, and variations above .the declared minimum shall not be un- reasonably large. G.2 VARIATIONS RESULTING FROM EXPOSURE. Variations from the declared weight or measure shall be permitted when caused by ordinary and customary exposure to conditions that normally occur in good distribution practice and that unavoidably result in change of weight or measure, but only after the - 7 -