Package Marking

Miller, Deputy Attorney General,

This department is in receipt of your letter in which you ask if the word “net” should be included in the content declaration on commodities put up in package form under the provisions of section 7 of the Act of July 24, 1913, P. L. 965, as amended, 76 PS §247, sometimes referred to as the Commodities Act.

You also state that some manufacturers and processors take exception to the requirement that the word “net” Is included in all quantity declarations of commodities put up by them in package form. They insist the Commodity Act is. being complied with when a…