Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73
§1452 Unfair and deceptive packaging and labeling; scope of prohibition
Title 15 › Chapter CHAPTER 39— - FAIR PACKAGING AND LABELING PROGRAM › § 1452
Summary
People who pack or label consumer products for sale must follow the packaging and labeling rules in this chapter and the regulations made under it. The same rule also applies to those who distribute packaged or labeled products, except hired carriers and freight forwarders. Wholesalers and retail sellers are not covered by this rule unless they actually package or label the products themselves or they tell others how the products must be packaged or labeled.
Full Legal Text
Title 15, §1452
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(a)It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in the packaging or labeling of any consumer commodity (as defined in this chapter) 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 chapter and of regulations promulgated under the authority of this chapter.
(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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Citation
15 U.S.C. § 1452
Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73