Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 49 - PUBLIC HEALTH-FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS
Part I - Regulations
Chapter 11 - Drug Regulations
Section I-1119 - Expression of Quantity of Contents [Formerly 49:4.0090]
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 3, March 20, 2024
A. The statement of the quantity of contents shall be expressed in terms of weight, measure, numerical count, or a combination of numerical count and weight or measure, which are generally used by consumers and users of the drug to express quantity thereof and which give accurate information as to the quantity. However, if no general usage in expressing accurate information as to the quantity of the drug exists among consumers and users thereof, the statement of the quantity of a drug which is not in tablet, capsule, ampoule or other unit form shall be in terms of weight if the drug is solid, semisolid, or viscous, or in terms of measure if the drug is liquid. The statement of the quantity of a drug which is in tablet, capsule, ampoule or other unit form shall be in terms of the numerical count of such units, supplemented, when necessary to give accurate information as to the quantity of the drug in the package, by a statement (in such terms manner and form as are not misleading) of the weight or measure of the units, or of the quantity of each active ingredient in each unit, which will give accurate information to the consumer or user.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, Title 40, as amended.
