2025 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 5 - WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
CHAPTER 6 - Fair Packaging and Labeling Act
Section 12605.

Universal Citation:
CA Bus & Prof Code § 12605 (2025)
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12605. No person subject to the prohibition contained in Section 12602 shall distribute or cause to be distributed in commerce any packaged commodity if any qualifying words or phrases appear in conjunction with the separate statement of the net quantity of contents required by Section 12603(b), but nothing in this chapter shall prohibit supplemental statements, at other places on the package, describing in nondeceptive terms the net quantity of contents: provided, that such supplemental statements of net quantity of contents shall not include any term qualifying a unit of weight, measure, or count that tends to exaggerate the amount of the commodity contained in the package.

In no case shall any declaration of quantity be qualified by the addition of the words “minimum,” or “when packed,” or words of similar import; nor shall any unit of weight, measure or count be qualified by any term (such as jumbo, giant, full, or the like) that tends to exaggerate the amount of the commodity in the package.

(Repealed and added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1309.)

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