Consumer Commodity Law and Legal Definition
According to 15 USCS § 1459, [Title 15. Commerce and Trade; Chapter 39. Fair Packaging and Labeling Program] the term consumer commodity, except as otherwise specifically provided by this subsection, means “any food, drug, device, or cosmetic (as those terms are defined by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act [21 USCS §§ 301 et seq.]), and any other article, product, or commodity of any kind or class which is customarily produced or distributed for sale through retail sales agencies or instrumentalities for consumption by individuals, or use by individuals for purposes of personal care or in the performance of services ordinarily rendered within the household, and which usually is consumed or expended in the course of such consumption or use. Such term does not include--
(1) any meat or meat product, poultry or poultry product, or tobacco or tobacco product;
(2) any commodity subject to packaging or labeling requirements imposed by the Secretary of Agriculture pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act [7 USCS §§ 136 et seq.], or the provisions of the eighth paragraph under the heading "Bureau of Animal Industry" of the Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. 832-833; 21 U.S.C. 151-157), commonly known as the Virus-Serum-Toxin Act;
(3) any drug subject to the provisions of section 503(b)(1) or 506 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 353(b)(1) and 356);
(4) any beverage subject to or complying with packaging or labeling requirements imposed under the Federal Alcohol Administration Act (27 U.S.C. 201 et seq.); or (5) any commodity subject to the provisions of the Federal Seed Act (7 U.S.C. 1551-1610).”
Legal Definition list
Related Legal Terms
- Affiliate of a Futures Commission Merchant, Commodity Trading Advisor, Commodity Pool Operator or Introducing Broker
- Agricultural Commodity
- Agricultural Commodity Cooperator
- Agricultural Commodity Producer
- Anticounterfeiting Consumer Protection Act
- Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act
- Bulk Agricultural Commodity
- Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
- Business to Consumer
- Carry-over of Nonbasic Agricultural Commodity
