CHAPTER 8. Label Requirements [108800. - 108825.]

Cal. Health and Safety Code - HSC 8.
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Cal. Health and Safety Code - HSC § 108800. Section 108800.

Cautionary statements that are required by law, or regulations adopted pursuant to law, to be printed upon the labels of containers in which dangerous drugs, poisons, and other harmful substances are packaged shall be printed in the English language in a conspicuous place in type of conspicuous size in contrast to the typography, layout, or color of the other printed matter on the label.

Cal. Health and Safety Code - HSC § 108805. Section 108805.

Unless a specific color is prescribed, the cautionary statements may be printed in any color, but preferably red, upon a plain and distinctly contrasting background.

Cal. Health and Safety Code - HSC § 108810. Section 108810.

The words “safe,” “safely,” “safety,” or words having the same meaning that would detract from the value of the cautionary statement shall not be used upon the labels of containers of dangerous drugs, poisons, and other highly toxic substances.

Cal. Health and Safety Code - HSC § 108815. Section 108815.

Nothing in this chapter shall apply to products produced by a laboratory licensed under Section 351 of Title III of the Public Health Service Act (Public Law 410, Chapter 373, Seventy-eighth Congress, Second Session).
Source: CA Legislative Counsel Bulk DataURL: https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zipFetched: 6/27/2026

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