§ 1452. Unfair and deceptive packaging and labeling; scope of prohibition

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1966

   Fair Packaging and Labeling Act

   Pub. L. 89–755 § 3 · 80 Stat. 1296

   Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 1452

   (Pub. L. 89–755, § 3, Nov. 3, 1966, 80 Stat. 1296.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Pub. L. 89–755, § 3, Nov. 3, 1966, 80 Stat. 1296.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 3. prohibition of unfair and deceptive packaging and labeling (a) It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in the packaging or labeling of any consumer commodity (as defined in this Act) 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 Act and of regulations promulgated under the authority of this Act. (b) The prohibition contained in subsection (a) shall not apply to persons engaged in business as wholesale or retail distributors of consumer commodities except to the extent that such persons (1) are engaged in the packaging or labeling of such commodities, or (2) prescribe or specify by any means the manner in which such commodities are packaged or labeled.

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