HR 893 · 95th Congress · Agriculture and Food
A bill to make more uniform with the general requirements of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act certain provisions relating to the labeling and notification of colored margarine and colored oleomargarine; and to provide for uniform standards and specifications for colored margarine and colored oleomargarine.
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EnactedLatest: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.(1977-01-04)
Plain Language Summary
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Eliminates the requirement, under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, that the package label of margarine or oleomargarine bear those words in typeface or lettering as large as any other typeface or lettering. Removes the requirement that the individually wrapped contents of such a package contain the word margarine or oleomargarine. Repeals the requirement that public eating places when serving margarine or oleomargarine must: (1) give prominent and conspicuous display, in a manner likely to be understood, of such fact; and (2) either label each separate serving margarine or oleomargarine, or serve such separate serving in a triangular shape. Requires that public eating places when serving margarine or oleomargarine must: (1) prominently and conspicuously display such fact; or (2) label such product in a manner likely to be understood by the ordinary patron in such eating place. Requires the regulation of margarine and oleomargarine by Federal agencies to be as uniform as practicable.…
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