[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR101.1]

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CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                          SERVICES (CONTINUED)
 
PART 101_FOOD LABELING--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A_General Provisions
 
Sec. 101.1  Principal display panel of package form food.




                      Subpart A_General Provisions

Sec.
101.1 Principal display panel of package form food.
101.2 Information panel of package form food.
101.3 Identity labeling of food in packaged form.
101.4 Food; designation of ingredients.
101.5 Food; name and place of business of manufacturer, packer, or 
          distributor.
101.9 Nutrition labeling of food.
101.10 Nutrition labeling of restaurant foods.
101.12 Reference amounts customarily consumed per eating occasion.
101.13 Nutrient content claims--general principles.
101.14 Health claims: general requirements.
101.15 Food; prominence of required statements.
101.17 Food labeling warning, notice, and safe handling statements.
101.18 Misbranding of food.

              Subpart B_Specific Food Labeling Requirements

101.22 Foods; labeling of spices, flavorings, colorings and chemical 
          preservatives.
101.30 Percentage juice declaration for foods purporting to be beverages 
          that contain fruit or vegetable juice.

    Subpart C_Specific Nutrition Labeling Requirements and Guidelines

101.36 Nutrition labeling of dietary supplements.
101.42 Nutrition labeling of raw fruit, vegetables, and fish.
101.43 Substantial compliance of food retailers with the guidelines for 
          the voluntary nutrition labeling of raw fruit, vegetables, and 
          fish.
101.44 Identification of the 20 most frequently consumed raw fruit, 
          vegetables, and fish in the United States.
101.45 Guidelines for the voluntary nutrition labeling of raw fruit, 
          vegetables, and fish.

       Subpart D_Specific Requirements for Nutrient Content Claims

101.54 Nutrient content claims for ``good source,'' ``high,'' ``more,'' 
          and ``high potency.''
101.56 Nutrient content claims for ``light'' or ``lite.''
101.60 Nutrient content claims for the calorie content of foods.
101.61 Nutrient content claims for the sodium content of foods.
101.62 Nutrient content claims for fat, fatty acid, and cholesterol 
          content of foods.
101.65 Implied nutrient content claims and related label statements.
101.67 Use of nutrient content claims for butter.
101.69 Petitions for nutrient content claims.

            Subpart E_Specific Requirements for Health Claims

101.70 Petitions for health claims.
101.71 Health claims: claims not authorized.
101.72 Health claims: calcium and osteoporosis.
101.73 Health claims: dietary lipids and cancer.
101.74 Health claims: sodium and hypertension.
101.75 Health claims: dietary saturated fat and cholesterol and risk of 
          coronary heart disease.
101.76 Health claims: fiber-containing grain products, fruits, and 
          vegetables and cancer.
101.77 Health claims: fruits, vegetables, and grain products that 
          contain fiber, particularly soluble fiber, and risk of 
          coronary heart disease.
101.78 Health claims: fruits and vegetables and cancer.
101.79 Health claims: Folate and neural tube defects.
101.80 Health claims: dietary noncariogenic carbohydrate sweeteners and 
          dental caries.

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101.81 Health claims: Soluble fiber from certain foods and risk of 
          coronary heart disease (CHD).
101.82 Health claims: Soy protein and risk of coronary heart disease 
          (CHD).
101.83 Health claims: plant sterol/stanol esters and risk of coronary 
          heart disease (CHD).

Subpart F_Specific Requirements for Descriptive Claims That Are Neither 
                Nutrient Content Claims nor Health Claims

101.93 Certain types of statements for dietary supplements.
101.95 ``Fresh,'' ``freshly frozen,'' ``fresh frozen,'' ``frozen 
          fresh.''

          Subpart G_Exemptions From Food Labeling Requirements

101.100 Food; exemptions from labeling.
101.105 Declaration of net quantity of contents when exempt.
101.108 Temporary exemptions for purposes of conducting authorized food 
          labeling experiments.

Appendix A to Part 101--Monier-Williams Procedure (With Modifications) 
          for Sulfites in Food, Center for Food Safety and Applied 
          Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration (November 1985)
Appendix B to Part 101--Graphic Enhancements Used by the FDA
Appendix C to Part 101--Nutrition Facts for Raw Fruits and Vegetables
Appendix D to Part 101--Nutrition Facts for Cooked Fish

    Authority: 15 U.S.C. 1453, 1454, 1455; 21 U.S.C. 321, 331, 342, 343, 
348, 371; 42 U.S.C. 243, 264, 271.

    Source: 42 FR 14308, Mar. 15, 1977, unless otherwise noted.

    Editorial Note: Nomenclature changes to part 101 appear at 63 FR 
14035, Mar. 24, 1998, 66 FR 17358, Mar. 30, 2001, and 66 FR 56035, Nov. 
6, 2001.



    The term principal display panel as it applies to food in package 
form and as used in this part, means the part of a label that is most 
likely to be displayed, presented, shown, or examined under customary 
conditions of display for retail sale. The principal display panel shall 
be large enough to accommodate all the mandatory label information 
required to be placed thereon by this part with clarity and 
conspicuousness and without obscuring design, vignettes, or crowding. 
Where packages bear alternate principal display panels, information 
required to be placed on the principal display panel shall be duplicated 
on each principal display panel. For the purpose of obtaining uniform 
type size in declaring the quantity of contents for all packages of 
substantially the same size, the term area of the principal display 
panel means the area of the side or surface that bears the principal 
display panel, which area shall be:
    (a) In the case of a rectangular package where one entire side 
properly can be considered to be the principal display panel side, the 
product of the height times the width of that side;
    (b) In the case of a cylindrical or nearly cylindrical container, 40 
percent of the product of the height of the container times the 
circumference;
    (c) In the case of any otherwise shaped container, 40 percent of the 
total surface of the container: Provided, however, That where such 
container presents an obvious ``principal display panel'' such as the 
top of a triangular or circular package of cheese, the area shall 
consist of the entire top surface. In determining the area of the 
principal display panel, exclude tops, bottoms, flanges at tops and 
bottoms of cans, and shoulders and necks of bottles or jars. In the case 
of cylindrical or nearly cylindrical containers, information required by 
this part to appear on the principal display panel shall appear within 
that 40 percent of the circumference which is most likely to be 
displayed, presented, shown, or examined under customary conditions of 
display for retail sale.