Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-110

§1452 Unfair and Deceptive Packaging and Labeling; Scope of Prohibition

Title 15 › CHAPTER 39 — FAIR PACKAGING AND LABELING PROGRAM › § 1452

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

People who package, label, or distribute packaged products must not put those products into packages or put labels on them that violate the rules in this chapter or the rules made under it. Carriers and freight forwarders that only move goods for hire are not covered. Wholesale and retail sellers are also generally not covered unless they do the packaging or labeling themselves or tell others exactly how to package or label the products. consumer commodity — an everyday product sold to consumers.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §1452

Commerce and Trade, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Nonconforming labels
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)Exemptions
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

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110