Pennsylvania Code › Title 70 - WEIGHTS, MEASURES AND STANDARDS › Part II - Packaging and Labeling › Chapter 21 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS › Section 21.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this part, have
					 the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
Commodity in package form or package
-A
					 commodity put up or packaged in any manner in advance of sale in units suitable
					 for either wholesale or retail sale, exclusive of any auxiliary shipping
					 container containing packages that individually conform to the requirements of
					 the act. An individual item or lot of a commodity not in package form, or which
					 does not meet this definition, but on which there is marked a selling price
					 based on an established price per unit of weight or of measure, shall be a
					 commodity in package form.
Consumer package
or
package of
					 consumer commodity
-A commodity in package form that is customarily
					 produced or distributed for sale through retail sales agencies or
					 instrumentalities for consumption by individuals, or use by individuals for the
					 purposes of personal care or in the performance of services ordinarily rendered
					 in or about the household in connection with personal possessions and which is
					 usually consumed or expended in the course of the consumption or use.
Label
-
(i) A written, printed or graphic matter
				  affixed to, applied to, attached to, blown into, formed, molded into, embossed
				  on or appearing upon or adjacent to a consumer commodity or a package
				  containing a consumer commodity, for purposes of branding, identifying or
				  giving information with respect to a commodity or to the contents of a
				  package.
(ii) The term does not
				  include a tag of an inspector or other nonpromotional matter affixed to or
				  appearing upon a consumer commodity.
Multiunit package
-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 multiunit package
					 but capable of being individually sold in full compliance with this
					 part.
Nonconsumer package
or
package of
					 nonconsumer commodity
-A commodity in package form other than a
					 consumer package, and particularly a package intended solely for industrial or
					 institutional use or for wholesale distribution only.
Person
-A corporation, partnership and
					 association as well as a natural person.
Polyethylene sheeting
-Rolls, sheets,
					 tarps, drop cloths and other items made from polyethylene, such as an ethylene
					 copolymer consisting of a major proportion of ethylene in combination with a
					 minor proportion of some other monomer or a mixture of polyethylene with a
					 lesser amount of polymers. The sheeting may contain additives or modifiers such
					 as pigments and stabilizers.
Principal display panel
-The part of a
					 label designed to most likely be displayed, presented, shown or examined under
					 normal and customary conditions of display and purchase. Wherever a principal
					 display panel appears more than once on a package, the requirements pertaining
					 to the principal display panel pertain to all the panels.
Random package
-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.
The provisions of this §
												21.1 amended under the Weights and
						Measures Act of 1965 (73 P. S. §§
													1651-1692) (Transferred from
						76
						P. S. §§
													100-1-100-42 in 1978);
						amended under the Consolidated Weights and Measures Act,
						3
						Pa.C.S. §§
													4104-4194.