---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 C.F.R. § 500.29"
title: "16"
number: "500.29"
heading: "Combination packages."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/16/500.29"
---

# §500.29. Combination packages.

- (a) A combination package is a package intended for retail sale, containing two or more individual packages or units of dissimilar commodities. The declaration of net quantity for a combination package will contain an expression of weight or mass, volume, measure or count or a combination, thereof, as appropriate for each individual package or unit: Provided, that the quantity statements for identical packages or units shall be combined.
  - (1) **Lighter fluid and flints—** “2 cans—each 8 fl. ozs. (236 mL); 1 package—8 flints.”
  - (2) **Sponges & Cleaner—** “2 sponges each 4 in. × 6 in. × 1 in. (10.1 × 15.2 × 2.5 cm); 1 box cleaner—Net Wt. 6 ozs. (170 g)”
  - (3) **Picnic Pack—** “20 spoons, 10 knives and 10 forks, 10 2-ply napkins 10 ins. × 10 ins. (25.4 × 25.4 cm) 10 cups—6 fl. ozs. (177 mL)”.
- (b) When the individual units in a combination package are either packaged or labeled and are intended for retail sale as individual units, each unit shall be in compliance with the applicable regulations under this part 500.

## Notes

### Authority

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

### Source

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