Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 40 - RULES OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › Chapter 40-15 - WEIGHTS AND MEASURES › Subject 40-15-3 - PACKAGING AND LABELING, ADVERTISING AND REPRESENTATIONS IN GENERAL › Rule 40-15-3-.02 - Definitions

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27, 2024
(1) Commodity in
				Package Form. The term "commodity in package form" means a commodity put up or
				packaged in any manner in advance of sale in units suitable for either
				wholesale or retail sale. An individual item or lot of any commodity not in
				package form as defined in this section, but on which there is marked a selling
				price based on an established price per unit of weight or of measure, shall be
				construed to be a commodity in package form. Where the term "package" is used
				in this regulation, it shall mean "commodity in package form" as herein
				defined.
(2) Consumer Package:
				Package of Consumer Commodity. A "consumer package" or "package of consumer
				commodity" means a commodity in package form that is customarily produced or
				distributed for sale through retail sales agencies or instrumentalities for
				consumption by individuals or used by individuals for the purposes of personal
				care or in the performance of services ordinarily rendered in or about the
				household or in connection with personal possessions.
(3) Non-consumer Package: Package of
				Non-consumer Commodity. A "non-consumer package" or "package of non-consumer
				commodity" means any commodity in package form other than a consumer package,
				and particularly a package intended solely for industrial or institutional use
				or for wholesale distribution.
(4)
				Random Package. The term "random package" means a package that is one of a lot,
				shipment, or delivery of packages of the same consumer commodity with varying
				weights; that is, packages of the same consumer commodity with no fixed pattern
				of weight.
(5) Label. The term
				"label" means any written, printed, or graphic matter affixed to, applied to,
				attached to, blown into, molded into, embossed on, or appearing upon or
				adjacent to a consumer commodity or a package containing any consumer
				commodity, for the purposes of branding, identifying, or giving any information
				with respect to the contents of the package, except that an inspector's tag or
				other nonpromotional matter affixed to or appearing upon a consumer commodity
				shall not be deemed to be a label requiring the repetition of label information
				required by this regulation.
(6)
				Person. The term "person" means both singular and plural, and shall include any
				individual, partnership, company, corporation, association and
				society.
(7) Principal Display
				Panel or Panels. The term "principal display panel or panels" means that part,
				or those parts, of a label that is, or are, so designed as to most likely be
				displayed, presented, shown or examined under normal customary conditions of
				display and purchase. Whenever a principal display appears more than once on a
				package, all requirements pertaining to the "principal display panel" shall
				pertain to all such "principal display panels."
(8) Multi-Unit Package. The term "multi-unit
				package" means a package containing two or more individual packages of the same
				commodity, in the same quantity, with the individual packages intended to be
				sold as part of the multi-unit package but capable of being individually sold
				in full compliance with all of the requirements of this regulation.
O.C.G.A. Sec.
				  10-2-5(Ga. L. 1972, p.
				  654).