The Farm and Garden Chemicals Regulations 1971

Contents of labels

4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, where a product is required by regulation 3 above to have a label bearing on it the name of every scheduled substance contained in the product—

(a) such names (except where they appear in the trade or other name under which the product is being marketed) shall be prefaced by words indicating that the substances to which they refer are contained in the product;

(b) every such name shall be written clearly and legibly without being hidden, obscured or made less conspicuous by any other matter, pictorial or otherwise, appearing on the label;

(c) where such a substance is referred to by one name in the Schedule to these regulations, the label shall bear that name;

(d) where such a substance is referred to by alternative names in the Schedule, the label may bear either name;

(e) salts and esters shall be named on the label separately from each other and from their parent compounds;

(f) a salt or ester which is a scheduled substance but which is not expressly named in the Schedule shall be named on the label either by reference to the name by which it is generally known or by reference to the common name of its parent compound with the addition of an appropriate suffix or prefix;

(g) where a substance has a common name recommended by the British Standards Institution, the label may bear that common name instead of any name otherwise required by these regulations.

(2) Where a substance which is for the time being included in the Poisons List made under section 17 of the Pharmacy and Poisons Act 1933 is also a scheduled substance for the purpose of these regulations, and its container is labelled with the name of the substance in accordance with that Act, no further reference to that substance on the label shall be necessary for the purpose of these regulations.