Packaging and Labeling PracticesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 Investigates impact of packaging and labeling practices on consumer buying habits. |
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14 ounces advertising believe best buy better BICKMORE bottle brand BROWNE buyer cents cereal Chairman CHESKIN CHUMBRIS COHEN color committee competitive consumer Consumers Union container contents cost deceive deceptive packaging detergent DICHTER economic Ernest Dichter example fact factors feel FENSTERWALD Food and Drug giant going Gresham's law grocery HALVERSTADT hearings housewife industry ingredients KING KITTRIE labeling practices legislation look manufacturer merchandise misleading Miss DUNHAM National National Consumers League net weight pack package design package sizes packaging and labeling panel percent pound problem purchase quantity quart question RAITT reason regulations retail Safeway sell Senator HART servings shelf shopper shredded wheat slack fill slide rule standard statement subcommittee sumer supermarket thing tion trying weights and measures WHARTON witnesses
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Page 202 - But in the mercantile system, the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object of all industry and commerce.
Page 535 - If its container is so made, formed, or filled as to be misleading.
Page 132 - If in package form unless it bears a label containing (1) the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor; and (2) an accurate statement of the quantity of the contents in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count...
Page 648 - Act to appear on the label or labeling is not prominently placed thereon with such conspicuousness (as compared with other words, statements, designs, or devices, in the labeling) and in such terms as to render it likely to be read and understood by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase and use.
Page 535 - A food shall be deemed to be misbranded — if any word, statement, or other information required by * • * this Act to appear on the label * * * is not prominently placed thereon with such conspicuousness * * * and in such terms as to render it likely to be read and understood by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase and use.
Page 201 - The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the sqciety to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations ; though the effect of these obstructions is.
Page 829 - The fact that powers long have been unexercised well may call for close scrutiny as to whether they exist; but if granted, they are not lost by being allowed to lie dormant, any more than nonexistent powers can be prescripted by an unchallenged exercise.
Page 4 - Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have : I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt. Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the Lord.
Page 202 - Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Page 807 - Misleading, fraudulent, or unhelpful practices such as these are clearly incompatible with the efficient and equitable functioning of our free competitive economy. Under our system, consumers have a right to expect that packages will carry reliable and readily useable information about their contents.