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Federal Trade Commission SUBCHAPTER E— RULES, REGULATIONS, STATE MENTS OF GENERAL POLICY OR INTERPRETA TION AND EXEMPTIONS UNDER THE FAIR PACKAGING AND LABELING ACT PART 503— STATEMENTS OF GEN ERAL POLICY OR INTERPRETATION Package Containing Single Consumer Commodity Section 503.4 (34 F.R. 8351) was pub lished May 30, 1969, to clarify the re quirement for declaration of net Qua ' tity in terms of count for the purpose §§ 500.6 and 500.7 of the regulations in Part 500. To illustrate § 503.4, examples were cited which identified certain com modifies which are now excluded from FEDERAL REGISTER, VOL. 34, NO. 216— SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1969
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“consumer commodity” status as that term was interpreted on August 9, .1969, in § 503.5 (34 F.R. 12944). For the pur pose of consistency, and to prevent pos sible misunderstanding, the need to amend § 503.4 by deleting the commodity examples used and replacing them with commodities which are “consumer com modities”, is recognized. Accordingly, pursuant to the provi sions of the Fair Packaging and Label ing Act (sections 4, 6, 80 Stat. 1297, 1298; 15 U.S.C. 1453, 1455) § 503.4 is revised to read as follows:
§ 503.4 Net quantity o f contents, numer ical count.
To clarify the requirement for decla ration of net quantity in terms of count for the purpose of §§ 500.6 and 500.7 of the regulations in Part 500 of this sub chapter, the following interpretation is rendered.
(a) When a consumer commodity is properly measured in terms of count only, or In terms of count and weight, volume, area, or dimension, the regulations are interpreted not to require the declaration of the net content as “one” , provided the statement of identity clearly ex presses the fact that only one Unit is contained in the package. Thus the unit synthetic sponge, the unit light bulb, and the unit dry cell battery do not require a net quantity statement of “ one sponge,” ‘.‘one light bulb,” or “one dry cell battery.” However, there still exists the necessity to provide a net quantity statement to specify weight, volume, area, or dimensions when such are re quired. For example, the synthetic sponge which is packaged, requires di mensions such as “5 in. x 3 in. x 1 in.” A multicomponent package or a package containing two or more units of the same commodity shall bear the net quantity statement in terms of count, and weight, volume, area, or dimensions as required. This interpretation does not preclude the option to enumerate a unit count on a single packaged commodity if so desired. Issued: November 5, 1969. By direction of the Commission. ^SEAL] Jo se ph W. S h e a, Secretary.
[F.R. Doc. 69-13326; Filed, Nov. 7, 1969; 8:46 a.m.]