27 U.S.C. § 213 — Declaration of policy and purpose

submitted 91 years ago by Pub. L. 100-690 to r/title-27-INTOXICATING-LIQUORS · 307 words · no verdicts yet

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This law states Congress's policy on alcohol health warning labels. Congress wants one uniform, clear federal warning on all alcoholic beverage containers instead of many different state rules. The goal is to inform the public about health risks while protecting interstate commerce from confusing, inconsistent requirements.

This section is a single, undivided declaration of policy, though its goals are listed in numbered parts. Congress states several findings: that the American public should be informed about health hazards that can come from consuming or abusing alcoholic beverages; that a clear, nonconfusing reminder of those hazards would help; that national uniformity in such reminders is needed to avoid spreading incorrect or misleading information and to minimize burdens on interstate commerce; and that requiring these reminders on all containers of alcoholic beverages is appropriate and necessary, given the federal government's substantial role in promoting the nation's health and safety. Based on those findings, Congress declares it is the policy of Congress, and the purpose of this subchapter, to use the full reach of the federal government's constitutional powers to establish a comprehensive federal program. That program deals with providing warnings or other information about any relationship between consuming or abusing alcoholic beverages and health, in connection with manufacturing and selling alcoholic beverages in or affecting interstate commerce. The program is meant to accomplish two things: (1) let the public be adequately reminded about health hazards that may be linked to consuming or abusing alcoholic beverages, through a nationally uniform, nonconfusing warning notice on each container of such beverages; and (2) let commerce and the national economy be: (A) protected to the maximum extent consistent with this declared policy; (B) not impeded by diverse, nonuniform, and confusing requirements for warnings or other information on alcoholic beverage containers relating to consumption or abuse of alcoholic beverages and health; and (C) protected from the adverse effects that would result from a program that is not comprehensive — one that covers alcoholic beverage containers sold in interstate commerce, but not containers that are manufactured and sold entirely within a single state.

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The Congress finds that the American public should be informed about the health hazards that may result from the consumption or abuse of alcoholic beverages, and has determined that it would be beneficial to provide a clear, nonconfusing reminder of such hazards, and that there is a need for national uniformity in such reminders in order to avoid the promulgation of incorrect or misleading information and to minimize burdens on interstate commerce. The Congress finds that requiring such reminders on all containers of alcoholic beverages is appropriate and necessary in view of the substantial role of the Federal Government in promoting the health and safety of the Nation’s population. It is therefore the policy of the Congress, and the purpose of this subchapter, to exercise the full reach of the Federal Government’s constitutional powers in order to establish a comprehensive Federal program, in connection with the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in or affecting interstate commerce, to deal with the provision of warning or other information with respect to any relationship between the consumption or abuse of alcoholic beverages and health, so that—

(1)

the public may be adequately reminded about any health hazards that may be associated with the consumption or abuse of alcoholic beverages through a nationally uniform, nonconfusing warning notice on each container of such beverages; and

(2)

commerce and the national economy may be—

(A)

protected to the maximum extent consistent with this declared policy,

(B)

not impeded by diverse, nonuniform, and confusing requirements for warnings or other information on alcoholic beverage containers with respect to any relationship between the consumption or abuse of alcoholic beverages and health, and

(C)

protected from the adverse effects that would result from a noncomprehensive program covering alcoholic beverage containers sold in interstate commerce, but not alcoholic beverage containers manufactured and sold within a single State.

Source credit: (Aug. 29, 1935, ch. 814, title II, § 202, as added Pub. L. 100–690, title VIII, § 8001(a)(3), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4518.)

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1935Enacted · Pub. L. 100-690 · 102 Stat. 4518

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 100-690 on 1935-08-29.

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