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This amandiaent permits the packing of products having a DO rating in whatever 

 types of metal containers may be specified by the Armed Services, provided these 

 products are for use by the Armed Services outside the IS States and the District 

 of Columbia. 



Restrictions of Order M-25 still apply to all other orders, including those 

 with DO ratings, if they are not intended for overseas military use. 



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FOOD GAMERS ABIE TO DJCREAaB PACK DJ CERTAIN CA^S ; Under "automatic" base- 

 period adjustment provisions of its containers order,i/ announced on March 12 by 

 the National Production Authority, canners of food and other products will be able 

 to increase their pack in certain cases where undue hardship would reailt under 

 base-period provisions of the order. 



Perishable foods (including fishery products) are permitted an unlimited pack, 

 and the March 12 action (Direction 1 to NPA Order M-25) does not change this origi- 

 nal provision of the order. 



However, NPA explained that it has received a number of requests for adjust- 

 ments under NPA Order M-25 wiiich regulates the use of metal cans by the packing 

 industry. Under this order the pack of all products, except perishable foods, is 

 regulated in accordance with the base-period pack of such products. The base period 

 is the corresponding quarter of 1949 or 1950, 



Many of the applications for adjustment of the base period represent problems 

 common to the industry and Direction 1 to NPA Order lt-25 permits all packers to 

 make their own readjustments in the following oases: 



1. V/here the base period is inapplicable because a particular product was 



not packed during the base period, or was packed during only a part 

 of the base period. 



In this case, packers are permitted to add up their entire pack of a certain 

 product during either 1949 or I95O, divide that by the number of months in which 

 the product was packed to obtain a monthly average , and then multiply by three to 

 get their quarterly average. The quarterly average so obtained may be used as the 

 base period for this particular product, until the packer is otherwise notified 

 by NPA. 



2. Where the base period is inapplicable because the pack of a certain 



product during the base period was less than the customary volume of 

 packing of that particular product. 



In this case, packers are permitted to add up their entire pack of a certain 

 product during either 1949 or I95O, divide this by the number of months in which 

 the packing took place to get the average monthly pack, and then multiply this by 

 three to get their quarterly average. The quarterly average so obtained may be 

 used as their base period for this particular product until notified otherwise by 

 NPA. 



3. \Vhere there were shut downs of mora than I5 consecutive days during 

 the base period. 



1/SEE COMMERCIAL FISHERIES REVIEW , MARCH 1951, P. 49; FEBRUARY 1951, PP. 79-81, 



