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California Business And Professions Code Section 12603

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No person subject to the prohibition in Section 12602 shall
distribute any packaged commodity unless it is in conformity with
regulations that shall be established by the director that shall
provide:
   (a) The commodity shall bear a label specifying the identity of
the commodity and the name and place of business of the manufacturer,
packer, or distributor.
   (b) The net quantity of contents (in terms of weight or mass,
measure, numerical count, or time) shall be separately and accurately
stated in a uniform location upon the principal display panel of
that label, using the most appropriate units of both the customary
inch-pound system of measure, and except as provided in subdivisions
(c) and (d), the SI (Systeme International d'Unites) metric system.
   (c) On a random package labeled in terms of pounds and decimal
fractions of the pound, the statement may be carried out to not more
than three decimal places and is not required to, but may include a
statement in terms of the SI metric system carried out to not more
than three decimal places.
   (d) The requirements of subdivision (b) concerning labeling using
the metric system do not apply to nonconsumer packages, foods that
are packaged at the retail store level, or to the sale or
distribution of products whose labels have been printed prior to
February 14, 1994.
   (e) This section shall become operative on February 14, 1994.

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