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Legible to normal vision
The regulation puts it plainly: required information must be clearly legible to a person with normal vision. That is a functional standard, and the measurable requirements underneath it are a floor rather than the whole test.
Six point or larger
A floor rather than a target. On a large jug with a lot to say, six point is unreadable in a garden centre, and meeting the minimum is not the same as meeting the standard above it.
Clear contrasting background
The same requirement that appears in every hazard labeling regime, for the same reason. Text over a photograph of a healthy lawn is the characteristic failure in this category.
Not obscured or crowded
Crowding is the one designers walk into. A label with nine mandatory elements and a brand to sell will be tight, and tightening it further to fit a marketing line is the violation.
Customary conditions of purchase and use
Which for this category means a shelf in a shed, a bottle with dirty hands, and often outdoors. The reader is rarely sitting down with good light.
Directions for use need the most space
Crop or site, rate, timing, re-entry, pre-harvest interval and restrictions. On a small bottle this is routinely the element that forces a booklet or a fold-out label.
Which is a container decision
A fold-out or booklet label needs a panel that can carry it and a bottle shape that will not shed it. Discovering you need one after choosing a narrow cylinder is the expensive order.
A booklet has to survive the shed
It will be opened wet, read in a wind and closed with a dirty thumb. The hinge and the resealing tab are the parts that fail, and a booklet that has come adrift takes the directions for use with it.
Proof it on the bottle, in daylight
Flat artwork at 400 percent on a screen tells you nothing about whether a person reads it on a shelf. Print it, apply it to the real container and look at it from arm's length in the light the buyer will have.