My products are syrups and fruit toppings; what determines if the label should use fluid ounces or et weight to declare net quantity of contents?
(June 2009) The Code of Federal Regulations says that the ‘net quantity of contents’ statement is to be expressed in terms of fluid measure, weight, numerical count, or a combination of numerical count and weight or fluid measure. The statement is to be in terms of fluid measure if the food is liquid, or in terms of weight if the food is solid, semisolid or viscous, or a mixture of solid and liquid. If syrups are pourable and do not contain solid pieces of anything the net quantity statement will be in terms of fluid measure as in the U.S. gallon of 231 cubic inches and quart, pint, and fluid ounce subdivisions as appropriate for the product container. If the fruit toppings are a mixture of syrup and pieces of fruit the net quantity statement will be by weight in terms of pound and ounce. Exception to the above regulations is possible; if there is a firmly established general consumer usage and trade custom of declaring the contents of a liquid by weight, or a solid, semisolid or visco
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