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The Fair Packaging And Labeling Act: Its Legislative History, Content, And Future, Wesley E. Forte
The Fair Packaging And Labeling Act: Its Legislative History, Content, And Future, Wesley E. Forte
Vanderbilt Law Review
The Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (FPLA), which became effective on July 1, 1967, was designed to protect consumers by requiring informative labeling and nondeceptive packaging for consumer commodities. The statute has been described as "an information bill. The first part is information largely about the label .... The second part of the bill is really, in a way, to try to eliminate the confusion in words so we have a common terminology, so we all speak the same language.... It is like establishing an alphabet ... in size designations." The author seeks to provide an insight into the new …