STANDARDS FOR FRUITS AND VEGETABLES 15 
Official certificates issued on requests for certifica- 
tion for export will bear the statement, ‘‘ Lot meets. 
United States standards for export”, provided the 
apples meet these standards. An inspection certifi- 
cate which bears this statement will show that the lot 
of appies so described meets the United States stand- 
ards for export at the time of inspection. It means 
that such apples were generally tightly packed when 
in barrels or baskets and were either generally fairly 
tight or tightly packed when in boxes and not more 
than 5 percent were further advanced in maturity 
than firm ripe. It also means that not more than a 
total of 5 percent of the apples were damaged by 
bitter pit, Jonathan spot, scald, internal breakdown, 
water core, freezing, decay, or other condition factors, 
except that not more than 2 percent were affected by 
decay and not more than 2 percent damaged by in- 
ternal breakdown and that the apples were free from 
scald except that when properly packed in oiled paper 
or especially treated with oil to prevent scald, not 
more than 2 percent were affected with slight seald. 
Although apples may be certified as meeting the 
export standards, such a statement on the certificate 
does not assure the buyer that the apples will arrive 
at destination in a satisfactory condition. Uncer- 
tainty as to such factors as time in transit, tempera- 
ture, and ventilation in stowage, makes it manifestly 
impossible to forecast accurately the condition of 
such fruit on arrival at destination. Official certifi- 
cation merely describes its condition at the time of the 
inspection. 
PACKING REQUIREMENTS 
The United States standards specify that the “ ap- 
ples in the shown face shall be reasonably representa- 
tive in size, color, and quality of the contents of the 
package.” 
It has long been the practice in the barreled-apple 
region to place the best applies in the shown face, and 
the custom has often been carried to extremes. The 
United States standard for packing is provided to 
discourage such extreme overfacing, which has been 
the cause of much dissatisfaction to buyers in both 
the domestic and foreign trade. 
The apples used for facing should not be so differ- 
ent from the remainder of the apples as to cauSe a 
marked contrast. This applies to size as well as to 
the color and other quality factors. When 38-inch ap- 
ples are used to face containers which contain mdstly 
