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Four terms

In package form

By Dwight Davis, Founder

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A food in package form. Which means a package for sale.

The phrase bounds the whole section

The principal display panel of a food in package form shall bear a declaration of the net quantity of contents.

And a pantry canister is not one

Nobody filling a flour jar at home is putting a food in package form. There is no declaration because there is nobody to declare to.

Which makes this group unusual in the library

Most properties here quote a rule that reaches the reader. This one quotes a rule that mostly does not, and says so first.

The line is sale, not quantity

A household storing two gallons of rice is not in package form and a market stall selling a one pound bag is.

So the moment a leaf becomes a business it changes

Bulk grain bought for a household and bulk grain repacked for sale are the same grain in the same jar, under different rules.

And several leaves here sit on that line

Pet treat home, dried fruit and nut storage are all things people start selling at a farmers market.

Which is the practical value of reading the section early

Because the container is bought before the decision to sell, and the declaration rules arrive afterwards.

State law is the other half

Weights and measures inspection at retail is a state function, and it is what actually checks a declared quantity. Nothing here describes it.

So a seller has two schemes to read

The federal declaration rules and the state inspection regime, and this property quotes part of the first.

For a household neither applies

Which leaves physics: moisture, light, mouth width and whether the lid reseals.

And those are the things our data answers

Material on all 29 containers, capacity on all 29, neck finish on 21, and a closure shelf of 149.

And the quantity itself is not the line

A household storing two gallons of rice is outside the section and a market stall selling a one pound bag is inside it. Volume has nothing to do with which side you are on.

Which is the honest division for this group

We can help with the cupboard. The label question only arrives if a household starts selling.

References

21 CFR 101.7(a): "The principal display panel of a food in package form shall bear a declaration of the net quantity of contents." The declaration may be expressed in weight, measure, numerical count, or a combination of numerical count and weight or measure, and the choice is governed: fluid measure for a liquid, weight for a solid, semisolid or viscous food, with dry measure permitted for a fresh produce item customarily sold that way. The section reaches a food in package form, meaning a package for sale. law.cornell.edu
The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. 178 rows: 29 containers and 149 closures, which is one of the smallest container counts in this library and a closure ratio of better than five to one. 950 to 7,571 mL with a median of 2,514, and nothing under a quart. 20 HDPE, 7 PET and 2 glass. 12 jars, 9 bottles, 8 tubs and pails. 5 PE wide mouth containers, 4 HDPE round tubs with handle, 4 plastic square grip containers, 3 plastic round pails, 3 HDPE single wall canisters, 2 PET wide mouth containers. 14 white, 9 clear, 5 natural, 1 black. Necks: 9 at 110-400, 8 unrecorded, 5 at 120TT, 2 each at 48-400 and 53-400, and singles at 110-405, 89-400 and 120-400. Closures: 110 continuous thread polypropylene lids, 16 metal or aluminum CT caps, 10 dome lids, 5 round tub lids, 3 plastic round pail lids, 3 sealing discs, 1 metal lug or twist cap, 1 metal overshell lid. Buyability, a snapshot: 20 of 29 available, 9 not; 9 quote only; 4 full case only, with case packs from 16 to 600 and a median of 80.
Written from 21 CFR 101.7 and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. That section reaches a food in package form, meaning a package for sale, so almost none of it reaches somebody filling a pantry canister; it is quoted because the four permitted terms and the 231 cubic inch gallon are worth knowing and because it shows what changes when a jar is sold rather than filled. The mass against volume gap is set out in the specialty supplements property. Nothing here addresses net quantity formatting, type size, placement, metric declarations, or state weights and measures law.