# 21 CFR § 501.1: Principal display panel of package form animal food

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URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-21-501.1

## Section

- **Citation:** 21 CFR § 501.1
- **Heading:** Principal display panel of package form animal food
- **Jurisdiction:** Federal
- **Kind:** Regulations
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** September 22, 2026
- **Source:** Publisher's official text
- **Location:** Title 21—Food and Drugs > CHAPTER I—FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES > SUBCHAPTER E—ANIMAL DRUGS, FEEDS, AND RELATED PRODUCTS > PART 501—ANIMAL FOOD LABELING > Subpart A—General Provisions

## Text

The term principal display panel as it applies to food in package form and as used in this part, means the part of a label that is most likely to be displayed, presented, shown, or examined under customary conditions of display for retail sale. The principal display panel shall be large enough to accommodate all the mandatory label information required to be placed thereon by this part with clarity and conspicuousness and without obscuring design, vignettes, or crowding. 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. For the purpose of obtaining uniform type size in declaring the quantity of contents for all packages of substantially the same size, the term area of the principal display panel means the area of the side or surface that bears the principal display panel, which area shall be:
(a) In the case of a rectangular package where one entire side properly can be considered to be the principal display panel side, the product of the height times the width of that side;
(b) In the case of a cylindrical or nearly cylindrical container, 40 percent of the product of the height of the container times the circumference;
(c) In the case of any otherwise shaped container, 40 percent of the total surface of the container: Provided, however, That where such container presents an obvious principal display panel such as the top of a triangular or circular package, the area shall consist of the entire top surface. 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. In the case of cylindrical or nearly cylindrical containers, information required by this part to appear on the principal display panel shall appear within that 40 percent of the circumference which is most likely to be displayed, presented, shown, or examined under customary conditions of display for retail sale.

## Nearby sections

- [21 CFR § 501.1 § 501.1 Principal display panel of package form animal food.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-21-501.1.md)
- [21 CFR § 501.2 § 501.2 Information panel of package for animal food.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-21-501.2.md)
- [21 CFR § 501.3 § 501.3 Identity labeling of animal food in package form.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-21-501.3.md)
- [21 CFR § 501.4 § 501.4 Animal food; designation of ingredients.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-21-501.4.md)
- [21 CFR § 501.5 § 501.5 Animal food; name and place of business of manufacturer, packer, or distributor.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-21-501.5.md)
- [21 CFR § 501.8 § 501.8 Labeling of animal food with number of servings.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-21-501.8.md)
- [21 CFR § 501.15 § 501.15 Animal food; prominence of required statements.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-21-501.15.md)
- [21 CFR § 501.17 § 501.17 Animal food labeling warning statements.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-21-501.17.md)
- [21 CFR § 501.18 § 501.18 Misbranding of animal food.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-21-501.18.md)
- [21 CFR § 501.22 § 501.22 Animal foods; labeling of spices, flavorings, colorings, and chemical preservatives.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-21-501.22.md)
- [21 CFR § 501.100 § 501.100 Animal food; exemptions from labeling.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-21-501.100.md)
- [21 CFR § 501.103 § 501.103 Petitions requesting exemptions from or special requirements for label declaration of ingredients.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-21-501.103.md)
- [21 CFR § 501.105 § 501.105 Declaration of net quantity of contents when exempt.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-21-501.105.md)
- [21 CFR § 501.110 § 501.110 Animal feed labeling; collective names for feed ingredients.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/ecfr-21-501.110.md)

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