California Business and Professions Code

§ 12603

BPC § 12603 Effective Jan 1, 2018Div. 5 · Ch. 6

Statute text

No person subject to the prohibition in Section 12602 shall distribute any packaged commodity unless it is in conformity with regulations that shall be established by the secretary that shall provide:

(a)The commodity shall bear a label specifying the identity of the commodity and the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor.

(b)The net quantity of contents (in terms of weight or mass, measure, numerical count, or time) shall be separately and accurately stated in a uniform location upon the principal display panel of that label, using the most appropriate units of both the customary inch-pound system of measure, and except as provided in subdivisions (c) and (d), the SI (Systeme International d’Unites) metric system.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 573, Sec. 60. (SB 800) Effective January 1, 2018.