Alabama Administrative Code › Title 80 - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIES › WEIGHTS AND MEASURES › Chapter 80-13-1 - RULES GOVERNING WEIGHTS, MEASURES, LABELING AND PACKAGING › Section 80-13-1-.10 - Prominence And Placement Of Packages

Current through Register Vol. 42, No. 9, June 28, 2024
(1) All information required to appear on a
				consumer package shall appear thereon in the English language and shall be
				prominent, definite, and plain, and shall be conspicuous as to size and style
				of letters and numbers and as to color of letters and numbers in contrast to
				color of background. Any required information that is either in hand lettering
				or hand script shall be entirely clear and equal to printing in
				legibility.
(2) The declaration or
				declarations of quantity of the contents of a package shall appear in the
				bottom 30 per cent of the principal display panel or panels. For cylindrical
				containers, see also Rule no.
				80-13-1-.11(7) for additional requirements.
(3)
				The declaration or declarations of quantity shall be in such a style of type or
				lettering as to be boldly, clearly, and conspicuously presented with respect to
				other type, lettering, or graphic material on the package, except that a
				declaration of net quantity blown, formed, or molded on a glass or plastic
				surface is permissible when all label information is blown, formed or molded on
				the surface.
(4) The declaration or
				declarations of quantity shall be in a color that contrasts conspicuously with
				its background, except that declaration of net quantity blown, formed or molded
				on a glass or plastic surface shall not be required to be presented in a
				contrasting color if no required label information is on the surface in a
				contrasting color.
(5) The area
				surrounding the quantity declaration shall be free of printed information above
				and below, by a space equal to at least the height of the lettering in the
				declaration and to the left and right, by a space equal to twice the width of
				the letter "N" of the style and size of type used in the declaration.
(6) The quantity declaration shall be
				presented in such a manner as to be generally parallel to the declaration of
				identity and to the base on which the package tests as it is designed to be
				displayed.
(7) The square inch area
				of the principal display panel shall be as follows:
(a) In the case of a rectangular container,
				one entire side which properly can be considered to be the principal display
				panel, the product of the height times the width of that side.
(b) In the case of a cylindrical or nearly
				cylindrical container, 40 per cent of the product of the height of the
				container times the circumference; or
(c) In the case of any other shaped
				container, 40 per cent of the total surface of the container, unless such
				container presents an obvious principal display panel (e.g. the top of a
				triangular or circular package of cheese, or the top of a can of shoe polish),
				the area shall consist of the entire surface.
(d) Determination of the principal display
				panel shall exclude tops, bottoms, flanges at tops and bottoms of cans, and
				shoulders and necks of bottles or jars.