Regulations last checked for updates: Feb 16, 2025

Title 21 - Food and Drugs last revised: Feb 03, 2025
§ 102.41 - Potato chips made from dried potatoes.

(a) The common or usual name of the food product that resembles and is of the same composition as potato chips, except that it is composed of dehydrated potatoes (buds, flakes, granules, or other form), shall be “potato chips made from dried potatoes.”

(b) The words “made from dried potatoes” shall immediately follow or appear on a line(s) immediately below the words “potato chips” in easily legible boldface print or type in distinct contrast to other printed or graphic matter, and in a height not less than the larger of the following alternatives:

(1) Not less than one-sixteenth inch in height on packages having a principal display panel with an area of 5 square inches or less and not less than one-eighth inch in height if the area of the principal display panel is greater than 5 square inches; or

(2) Not less than one-half the height of the largest type used in the words “potato chips.”

authority: 21 U.S.C. 321,343,371
source: 42 FR 14322, Mar. 15, 1977, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 21 CFR 102.41