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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>54221</law_id><section_number>3.2-5623</section_number><catch_line>Information to be shown on packages</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>3.2-5624</reference><reference>3.2-5634</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="IV">Food and Drink; Weights and Measures</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="56">Weights and Measures</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, any <span class="dictionary">commodity in package form</span>, introduced or delivered for introduction into, or received in, intrastate commerce, kept for the purpose of <span class="dictionary">sale</span>, or offered or exposed for <span class="dictionary">sale</span>, shall bear on the outside of the package a definite, plain, and conspicuous declaration of: (i) the identity of the commodity in the package unless the same can easily be identified by an actual or prospective buyer through the wrapper or container; (ii) the net quantity of the contents in terms of <span class="dictionary">weight</span>, measure, or count; and (iii) in the case of any package kept, offered, or exposed for <span class="dictionary">sale</span>, or sold any place other than on the premises where packed, the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor. In connection with the declaration required under clause (ii) of this section the qualifying term &#x201C;when packed,&#x201D; or words of similar import shall not be used, nor shall any term qualifying a unit of <span class="dictionary">weight</span>, measure, or count including &#x201C;jumbo,&#x201D; &#x201C;giant,&#x201D; &#x201C;full&#x201D; that tends to exaggerate the amount of commodity in a package be used.
		The Uniform Regulation for Packaging and Labeling as adopted by the National Conference on <span class="dictionary">Weights and Measures</span> and published in National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 130, &#x201C;Uniform <span class="dictionary">Laws</span> and Regulations,&#x201D; and supplements thereto or revisions thereof, shall apply to the method of <span class="dictionary">sale</span> of commodities in the Commonwealth, except insofar as modified or rejected by regulation.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 3-708.26, 59-103; 1962, c. 298; 1966, c. 702, &#xA7; 3.1-944; 1993, c. 604; 2008, c. 860.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
