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Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

Chapter II—Definitions

SEC. 201. [321] For the purposes of this Act—

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1 (k)The term “label” means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container of any article; and a requirement made by or under authority of this Act that any word, statement, or other information appearing on the label shall not be considered to be complied with unless such word, statement, or other information also appears on the outside container or wrapper, if any there be, of the retail package of such article, or is easily legible through the outside container or wrapper.

2 (l)The term “immediate container” does not include package liners.

3 (m)The term “labeling” means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter (1) upon any article or any of its containers or wrappers, or (2) accompanying such article….

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Food Labeling

21 C.F.R. Part 101

§ 101.1 Principal display panel of package form food

The term “principal display panel” as it applies to food in package form and as used in this part, means the part of a label that is most likely to be displayed, presented, shown, or examined under customary conditions of display for retail sale. The principal display panel shall be large enough to accommodate all the mandatory label information required to be placed thereon by this part with clarity and conspicuousness and without obscuring design, vignettes, or crowding. Where packages bear alternate principal display panels, information required to be placed on the principal display panel shall be duplicated on each principal display panel ….

§ 101.2 Information panel of package form food

1 The term “information panel” as it applies to packaged food means that part of the label immediately contiguous and to the right of the principal display panel as observed by an facing the principal display panel with the following exceptions:If the part of the label immediately contiguous and to the right of the principal display panel is too small to accommodate the necessary information or is otherwise unusable label space, e.g., folded flaps or can ends, the panel immediately contiguous and to the right of this part of the label may be used.If the package has one or more alternate principal display panels, the information panel is immediately contiguous and to the right of any principal display panel.If the top of the container is the principal display panel and the package has no alternate principal display panel, the information panel is any panel adjacent to the principal display panel.

2 All information required to appear on the label of any package of food under … this chapter shall appear either on the principal display panel or on the information panel, unless otherwise specified by regulations in this chapter.

3 All information appearing on the principal display panel or the information panel pursuant to this section shall appear prominently and conspicuously, but in no case may the letters and/or numbers be less than one‐sixteenth inch in height unless an exemption pursuant to paragraph (f) of this section is established… . [A number of exemptions from size and placement requirements are omitted.]

4 All information appearing on the information panel pursuant to this section shall appear in one place without other intervening material.

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