---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 C.F.R. § 500.27"
title: "16"
number: "500.27"
heading: "Multiunit packages."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/16/500.27"
---

# §500.27. Multiunit packages.

- (a) A multiunit package is a package intended for retail sale, containing two or more individual packaged or labeled units of an identical commodity in the same quantity. The declaration of net quantity of contents of a multiunit package shall be expressed as follows:
  - (1) The number of individual packaged or labeled units;
  - (2) The quantity of each individual packaged or labeled unit; and
  - (3) **The total quantity of the multiunit package.**
- (b) The individual packages or labeled units of a multiunit package, when intended for individual sale separate from the multiunit package, shall be labeled in compliance with the regulations under this part 500 applicable to that package.
- (c) A multiunit package containing unlabeled individual packages which are not intended for retail sale separate from the multiunit package may contain, in lieu of the requirements of [Paragraph (a)](#a) of this section, a declaration of quantity of contents expressing the total quantity of the multiunit package without regard for inner packaging. For such multiunit packages it shall be optional to include a statement of the number of individual packages when such a statement is not otherwise required by the regulations.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 1453, 1454, 1455.

### Source

Source: 59 FR 1872, Jan. 12, 1994, unless otherwise noted.