SB 465, as introduced, Correa. Fair Packaging and Labeling Act.
Existing law establishes the Department of Food and Agriculture and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, enforcement of the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act. The act prohibits persons from distributing any packaged commodity that is not in conformity with prescribed packaging and labeling requirements.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the latter provision.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 12603 of the Business and Professions
2Code is amended to read:
begin deleteNo end deletebegin insertA end insertperson subject to the prohibition in Section 12602
4shallbegin insert notend insert distribute any packaged commodity unless it is in
5conformity with regulations that shall be established by the director
6that shall provide:
7(a) The commodity shall bear a label specifying the identity of
8the commodity and the name and place of business of the
9manufacturer, packer, or distributor.
10(b) The net quantity of
contents (in terms of weight or mass,
11measure, numerical count, or time) shall be separately and
P2 1accurately stated in a uniform location upon the principal display
2panel of that label, using the most appropriate units of both the
3customary inch-pound system of measure, and except as provided
4in subdivisions (c) and (d), the SI (Systeme International d’Unites)
5metric system.
6(c) On a random package labeled in terms of pounds and decimal
7fractions of the pound, the statement may be carried out to not
8more than three decimal places and is not required to, but may
9include a statement in terms of the SI metric system carried out to
10not more than three decimal places.
11(d) The requirements of subdivision (b) concerning labeling
12using the metric system do not apply to nonconsumer packages,
13foods that are packaged at the retail store level, or to the sale or
14distribution of products whose
labels have been printed prior to
15February 14, 1994.
16(e) This section shall become operative on February 14, 1994.
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