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Net quantity

Where the declaration goes

By Dwight Davis, Founder

Updated

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Location is regulated too, and the rule is written in units of letter height.

The principal display panel

The label shall bear the net quantity declaration separately and accurately stated on the principal display panel. That is the face the customer sees in normal retail display, and on a small round jar it is not very much space.

Separated, by a measured amount

From text above or below, by at least a space equal to the height of the lettering used in the declaration. From text left or right, by at least twice the width of the letter N in the type used. Those are real measurements, not a layout suggestion.

A distinct item

It cannot be folded into a sentence of marketing copy or run together with the fragrance name. The point is that a shopper comparing two jars can find the quantity on each without reading the label.

No qualifying words

The section names the kind it means: jumbo quart, giant liter, full gallon, when packed, minimum, or words of similar import. A melt label saying "approx" or "minimum net weight" has used exactly the construction the rule forbids.

Conspicuous and contrasting

500.20 requires boldface type or print in distinct contrast to other matter on the package, by typography, layout, color, embossing or molding. Low-contrast small type on a textured label is the usual way this is missed.

And the identity statement sits alongside it

500.4 requires the principal display panel to specify what the commodity is, as a principal feature, in the common or usual name. "Wax melt" is that name; a fragrance name on its own is not.

Small round jars make this genuinely tight

On a 60 ml jar the principal display panel is a few square inches and the declaration needs its own space with measured clearance around it. That is a real constraint on the artwork, and it is easier to design for than to retrofit.

References

16 CFR 500.6, Net quantity of contents declaration, location, which requires the declaration on the principal display panel as a distinct item, separated from other label text, and forbids qualifying terms such as "when packed" or "minimum". law.cornell.edu
16 CFR 500.20 and 500.21, on conspicuousness and on type size against the area of the principal display panel, which for a cylindrical container is 40 percent of height times circumference. law.cornell.edu
16 CFR 500.4 and 500.5, on the statement of identity and on the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer or distributor. law.cornell.edu
Written from federal regulation and from the catalog’s own material data, not from a pouring bench. Net quantity rules are federal and state weights and measures officials enforce their own programs alongside them. Anything here is a starting point rather than clearance for a specific label.