Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 486 > Part V - Measurement Standards, Uniform Packaging and Labeling

• Administrator: means the administering officer of the quality assurance division, or any qualified person so designated by the chairperson. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
• Board: means board of agriculture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
• Certificate of conformance: means a document issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology based on testing in participating laboratories and constitutes evidence of conformance of a type with the requirements of National Institute of Standards and Technology handbooks 44, 105-1, 105-2, or 105-3. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
• Consumer commodity: means any article, product, good or agricultural or other commodity of any kind that is customarily produced or distributed for sale through mercantile or retail sales outlets for consumption or use by individuals, including but not limited to food products or consumer packages. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
• Craft item: means any consumer commodity that is not an agricultural commodity or a perishable consumer commodity that is manufactured, assembled, fabricated, or produced by an individual working alone or a small group of individuals working collaboratively and that is produced by hand or by using simple tools. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
• Department: means department of agriculture. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
• Incorrect: means to be in noncompliance with any specification, tolerance, performance criteria, standard, or any part of this chapter or any rule adopted under it. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
• Intrastate commerce: means commerce or trade begun, carried on, and completed wholly within the limits of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
• Label: includes any written, printed, or graphic matter affixed to, applied to, attached to, blown into, formed, molded into, embossed on, or appearing upon or adjacent to a consumer commodity, or a package containing any consumer commodity, for purposes of branding, pricing, identifying, or giving any information with respect to the commodity or to the contents of the package, except that an inspector's tag or other nonpromotional matter affixed to or appearing upon a consumer commodity shall not be considered a label requiring the repetition of label information required by this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
• Measure: includes all measures of every kind, including but not limited to weight, mass, length, volume, time, and count; instruments and devices for weighing, measuring, or counting; and appliances and accessories associated with any such instruments and devices. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
• Measurement standards: includes any standard or definition or model or reference or measurement relating to metrology including but not limited to weights and measures, artifacts, and reproducible definitions of a unit of measure and their applicable tolerances including those of the SI, and definitions of a lot size, sample and tolerances as related to statistical inspection. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
• Metric system: means the SI or International System of Units, as established by the General Conference of Weights and Measures in 1960 and as interpreted or modified for the United States by the Secretary of Commerce. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
• Misbranded: includes :

  (1) False, incomplete, incorrect, or misleading labeling;

  (2) Misrepresentation as to the identity, quantity, quality, or point of origin;

  (3) Misrepresentation as to the principal place of business of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor;

  (4) Misrepresentation by vignette, pictorial display, identifiable geographical location, or by any term, word, or phrase in juxtaposition to any other information associated with, labeled on, or accompanying the consumer commodity which falsely alludes to a specific point of origin, a general locale such as a state, or to historical usage by a people;

  (5) Misrepresentation as to originality or creativity;

  (6) Misrepresentation of the consumer commodity as an imitation of another or as an imitation of a generic product; and

  (7) Misrepresentation in any other manner tending to confuse the prospective purchaser. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1

• Net weight: means :

  (1) As applied to commodities, the weight of a commodity excluding any materials, substances, or items not considered to be part of the commodity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-101

• Participating laboratory: means any state measurement laboratory that has been certified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in accordance with its program for the certification of capability of state measurement laboratories, to conduct a type evaluation under the national type evaluation program. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
• Perishable consumer commodity: includes , but is not limited to, baked goods, dairy products, cut or dried flowers, coffee, candy, cookies, jam, jelly, juices, oils, nuts, or similar products. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
• Retail: means sale to the final consumer. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
• sale: include barter and exchange. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Type: means a model or models of a particular measurement system, instrument, element, or a field standard that positively identifies the design. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486-1