16 CFR § 500.29 - Combination packages.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t16/s500.29"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "16 CFR § 500.29 - Combination packages."
title_number: 16
title_name: "Commercial Practices"
section_number: "500.29"
section_name: "Combination packages."
chapter_name: "FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION"
subchapter_number: "E"
subchapter_name: "RULES, REGULATIONS, STATEMENT OF GENERAL POLICY OR INTERPRETATION AND EXEMPTIONS UNDER THE FAIR PACKAGING AND LABELING ACT"
part_number: "500"
part_name: "REGULATIONS UNDER SECTION 4 OF THE FAIR PACKAGING AND LABELING ACT"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "15 U.S.C. 1453, 1454, 1455."
regulatory_source: "59 FR 1872, Jan. 12, 1994, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "500"
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# 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.

****Examples

(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.