9 CFR 317.2 Labels: definition; required features: panels
317.2.d The principal display panel shall be the part of a label that is most likely to be displayed, presented, shown, or examined under customary conditions of display for sale. Where packages bear alternate principal display panels, information required to be placed on the principal display panel shall be duplicated on each principal display panel. The principal display panel shall be large enough to accommodate all the mandatory label information required to be placed thereon by this part and part 319 of this subchapter with clarity and conspicuousness and without obscuring of such information by designs or vignettes or crowding. In determining the area of the principal display panel, exclude tops, bottoms, flanges at tops and bottoms of cans, and shoulders and necks of bottles or jars. The principal display panel shall be:

317.2.d.1 In the case of a rectangular package, one entire side, the area of which is at least the product of the height times the width of that side.

317.2.d.2 In the case of a cylindrical or nearly cylindrical container:

317.2.d.2.i An area that is 40 percent of the product of the height of the container times the circumference of the container, or

317.2.d.2.ii A panel, the width of which is one-third of the circumference and the height of which is as high as the container: Provided, however, That if there is immediately to the right or left of such principal display panel, a panel which has a width not greater than 20 percent of the circumference and a height as high as the container, and which is reserved for information prescribed in paragraphs (c) (2), (3), and (5), such panel shall be known as the "20 percent panel" and such information may be shown on that panel in lieu of showing it on the principal display panel.

317.2.d.3 In the case of a container of any other shape, 40 percent of the total surface of the container.
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