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 :

Permissible Deviations for Whole, Stoned or Stuffed Olives

R956 Table 1 Permissible deviations

R956 Table 1 Permissible deviations (2)

Table 2 :

Permissible Deviations for the Styles Broken, Chopped, Minced, Sliced Table Olives, as well as Other Segmented Styles of Table 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	1	1
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 :

Permissible Deviations for Drained Mass [Regulation 10]

Container with a drained mass of:	Maximum drained mass deviation
<200g	10%
≥ 200g <500g	10%
≥ 500g <1 500g	10%
≥ 1 500g	5%