Agricultural Product Standards Act, 1990 (Act No. 119 of 1990)

Regulations

Purchase

(1)	The maximum permissible quality deviations allowed for each grade are as follows, depending on the style concerned:

Table 1 :

Permissable Deviations for Whole, Stoned or Stuffed Olives

R589 19. Table

R589 19. Table 1

* In addition, at least 30% of the fruits shall be free from any blemishes.

Table 2 :

Permissable Deviations for Broken, Chopped, Minced, Sliced and Other Segmented Styles of Olives

Trade preparations	Green olives	Olives darkened by oxidation	Olives turning colour and black olives

Quality factor	Maximum tolerance allowed
Harmless extraneous material (units)	2	2	2
Stems (units)	4	6	5
Blemishes and wrinkles (%)	25	25	25
Stones (pits) or stone (pit) fragments (average unit)	1.0	1.0	1.0
Soft and excessive soft (%)	10/5	10/5	12/6
Broken pieces among segmented/sliced olives (%)	50	50	50

(2)	The maximum permissible deviations allowed for the declared drained mass are as follows:

Table 3 :

Permissable Deviations for Drained Mass [Regulation 11]

Container size	Maximum drained mass
Container with drained mass less than 200g	5%
Container with drained mass between 200g and 500g	4%
Container with drained mass between 500g and 1 500g	3%
Container with drained mass more than 1 500g	2%