---
kind: "section"
citation: "27 U.S.C. § 216"
title: "27"
title_heading: "Intoxicating Liquors"
number: "216"
heading: "Preemption"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/27/216"
units:
  - "Chapter 8 — Federal Alcohol Administration Act"
  - "Subchapter II — Alcoholic Beverage Labeling"
---

# §216. Preemption


No statement relating to [alcoholic beverages](/usc/27/214.md?p=1) and [health](/usc/27/214.md?p=6), other than the statement required by [section 215 of this title](/usc/27/215.md), shall be required under [State law](/usc/27/214.md?p=11) to be placed on any [container](/usc/27/214.md?p=5) of an [alcoholic beverage](/usc/27/214.md?p=1), or on any box, carton, or other package, irrespective of the material from which made, that contains such a [container](/usc/27/214.md?p=5).


## Source credit

(Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 814, title II, § 205, as added Pub. L. 100–690, title VIII, § 8001(a)(3), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4520.)