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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



tions permit tolerances or variations 

 in packages wliere tlie discrepancies 

 are due exclusively to unavoidable 

 errors in weighing, measuring, or 

 counting which occur in packing 

 errors in weighing, measuring, or 

 conducted in compliance with 

 good commercial practice. This 

 tolerance is allowed in order to per- 

 mit the use of weighing and meas- 

 uring machines which, like human 

 operators, cannot weigh or measure 

 with absolute accuracy every pack- 

 age. The regulations, however, pro- 

 vide that a run of such packages 

 must show as many cases of over- 

 weight and as much excess as it 

 does cases of underweight or under- 

 volume. 



Similiarly in the case of bottles, 

 wliich can not be blown with abso- 

 lute accuracy, tolerances are al- 

 lowed, but with the same proviso 

 that the run of bottles must show 

 as much excess in volume as de- 

 ficiency in volume. Queer-shaped 

 bottles must not show greater dis- 

 crepancies than standard round or 

 square bottles of the same capacity. 

 This means that a manufacturer 

 v.ho uses some special bottle of 

 odd shape cannot claim a greater 

 variation because of the difficulty of 

 blowing or manufacturing such a 

 bottle or container. 



Because goods shipped from one 

 part of the country to another lose 

 in weight by natural evaporation 

 due to differences of atmospheric 

 conditions or temperature, toler- 

 ances will be allowed for such 

 changes. The proper tolerances to be 

 allowed will be determined on the 

 facts in each case, and it is prob- 

 able that the department will es- 

 tablish tolerances for evaporation 

 for various foods. 



Packages containing 2 ounces 

 avoirdupois or 1 fluid ounce of 

 food or less are considered small 

 and are exempted from marking 

 in terms of weight. The reason for 

 this is that providing accurate 

 small bottles and accurately meas- 

 uring their contents in the case of 

 a number of articles sold in small 

 packages for 5 or 10 cents would 

 be prohibitive in cost to the manu- 

 facturers and would force them to 

 raise the price for the package or 

 to put less food- in it for the same 

 price. 



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