Idaho Administrative Code
Title IDAPA 02 - Agriculture, Department of
Rule 02.02.14 - RULES FOR WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Section 02.02.14.200 - PROMINENCE AND PLACEMENT - CONSUMER PACKAGES

01. General. All information required to appear on a consumer package must appear thereon in the English language and be prominent, definite, and plain, and be conspicuous as to size and style of letters and numbers and as to color of letters and numbers in contrast to color of background. Any required information that is either in hand lettering or hand script must be entirely clear and equal to printing in legibility.

02. Location. The declaration or declarations of quantity of the contents of a package must appear in the bottom thirty percent (30%) of the principal display panel or panels, except as otherwise provided in Subsection 220.07, Cylindrical Containers.

03. Style of Type or Lettering. The declaration or declarations of quantity must be in such a style of type or lettering as to be boldly, clearly, and conspicuously presented with respect to other type, lettering, or graphic material on the package, except that a declaration of net quantity blown, formed or molded on a glass or plastic surface is permissible when all label information is blown, formed, or molded on the surface.

04. Color Contrast. The declaration or declarations of quantity must be in a color that contrasts conspicuously with its background, except that a declaration of net quantity blown, formed, or molded on a glass or plastic surface is not required to be presented in a contrasting color if no required label information is on the surface in a contrasting color.

05. Free Area. The area surrounding the quantity declaration must be free of printed information as follows:

06. Parallel Quantity Declaration. The quantity declaration must be presented in such a manner as to be generally parallel to the declaration of identity and to the base on which the package rests as it is designed to be displayed.

07. Calculation of Area of Principal Display Panel for Purposes of Type Size. The square-inch area of the principal display panel must be as follows:

08. Minimum Height of Numbers and Letters. The height of any letter or number in the required quantity declaration must be not less than that shown in Subsection 200.10, Table 1 with respect to the square-inch area of the panel, and the height of each number of a common fraction must meet one-half (1/2) the minimum height standards.

09. Numbers and Letters -- Proportion. No number or letter may be more than three (3) times as high as it is wide.

10. Minimum Height of Numbers and Letters -- Table 1.