Packaged commodities

1. Law
2. US Virgin Islands Code
3. Consumer Code
4. Consumer Protection Law of 1973
5. Weights and Measures
6. Packaged commodities

• Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, any commodity in package form kept for the purpose of sale or offered or exposed for sale, shall bear on the outside of the package such definite, plain, legible and conspicuous declarations of:

  • (1) the identity of the commodity in the package unless the same can easily be identified through the wrapper or container;

  • (2) the net quantity of the contents in terms of weight, measure or count, but the term “when packed” or any words of similar import, or any term qualifying a unit of weight, measure or count, such as “jumbo”, “giant”, “full” or the like that tend to exaggerate the amount of commodity in a package, shall not be used; and

  • (3) the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer or distributor in the case of any package kept, offered or exposed for sale, or sold any place other than on the premises where packed as may be prescribed by regulation promulgated by the Director.

• The Director shall, by regulation, establish reasonable variations to be allowed, which may include variations below the declared weight or measure caused by ordinary and customary exposure to conditions that normally occur in good distribution practice and that unavoidably result in decreased weight or measure. Such regulation shall provide for exemptions for small packages and for commodities put up in variable weights or sizes for sale intact and either customarily not sold as individual units or customarily weighed or measured at the time of sale to the customer.

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