AI-assisted research summary: This provision defines several labeling terms, including label, labeling, package, principal display panel, and principal labeler.
"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 part that any word, statement, or other information appears on the label shall not be considered to be complied with unless the word, statement, or other information also appears on the outside container or wrapper, if any there be, of the retail package of the article, or is easily legible through the outside container or wrapper. "Immediate container" does not include package liners. "Labeling" means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter (1) upon an article or any of its containers or wrappers, or (2) accompanying the article. "Package" means any container or wrapping in which any consumer commodity is enclosed for use in the delivery or display of that consumer commodity to retail purchasers, but does not include (1) shipping containers or wrappings used solely for the transportation of any consumer commodity in bulk or in quantity to manufacturers, packers, or processors, or to wholesale or retail distributors thereof; (2) shipping containers or outer wrappings used by retailers to ship or deliver any commodity to retail customers if such containers and wrappings bear no printed matter pertaining to any particular commodity. "Principal display panel" means that part, or those parts, of a package or label that is, or are, so designed as to most likely be displayed, presented, shown or examined under normal and customary conditions of display and purchase. Whenever the principal display panel of the package is not coincident with the principal display panel of the label, the principal display panel of the package shall govern the declaration of quantity type size and the principal display panel of the label shall govern its location. Whenever a difference of opinion exists as to which panel of a package constitutes the principal display panel, the larger panel most likely to be displayed shall be so construed. Whenever a consumer package has more than one principal display panel, each such panel shall bear all mandatory information required by this part and by the Federal Act. "Principal labeler" means the manufacturer, packer, or distributor whose name is on the package which contains the finished drug and is distributed to the dispenser. If more than one name is on the package, the principal labeler shall be the manufacturer, packer, or distributor whose name is on the package and who had possession of the package immediately before the dispenser of the drug. [L 1941, c 318, pt of §2; RL 1945, §2202; RL 1955, §51-2; HRS ; am L 1972, c 151, pt of §2; am L 1977, c 58, §43; am L 1982, c 122, §1(2)]