STANDARDS FOR FRUITS AND VEGETABLES 9590 
destination. No part of any tolerance shall be al- | 
lowed for wormy fruit or worm holes, — 
U.S. Combination grade—Not more than 10 per- 
cent, by count, of the fruit in any container may be 
below the requirements of this grade but not more 
than one twentieth of this tolerance, or 0.5 percent, 
shall be allowed for decay at shipping point. In ad- 
dition, a total tolerance of not more than 3. percent 
shall be allowed for decay en route or at destination. 
No part of any tolerance shall be allowed for wormy 
fruit or worm holes. No part of any tolerance shall 
be allowed to reduce the percentage of U.S. No. 1 
required in the combination except that the 3 percent 
tolerance for decay en route or at destination may be 
used to reduce this percentage provided there is no 
evidence that the decayed fruit did not meet the re- 
quirements of U.S. No. 1 grade at time of packing. 
U.S. No. 1 Russet, U.S. No. 2 Russet grades — 
Not more than 10 percent, by count, of the fruit in 
any container may be below the requirements of these 
grades but not more than one twentieth of this 
amount, or 0.5 percent, shall be allowed for decay 
at shipping point, and no part of this tolerance shall 
be allowed to reduce the percentage of russet fruit. 
required in these grades. In addition, a total tol- 
erance of not more than 8 percent shall be allowed 
for decay en route or at destination. No part of any 
tolerance shall be allowed for wormy fruit or worm 
holes. 
STANDARD PACK 
Fruit shall be arranged in the boxes according to the 
approved and recognized methods. The fruit shall 
be tightly packed and the wrap show at least one half 
twist. Each fruit shall be enclosed in its individual 
wrapper, except that in packs of oranges and tan- 
gerines of a size 250 and smaller only fruit in the top 
and bottom layers and fruit exposed at the sides of 
the box shall be required to be wrapped. 
Each box of oranges shall show a minimum bulge of 
1% inches. With grapefruit the minimum bulge shall 
be 2 inches, except that boxes packed with grapefruit 
of a size 80 or smaller need only show a bulge of 1% 
inches. Boxes of tangerines shall show a minimum 
bulge of three fourths of an inch. 
In order to allow for variations incident to proper 
packing not more than 5 percent of the boxes in any 
lot Hake not meet the requirements for the standard 
pack. 
