Jim,
Your maths might be correct, but the additional profit is small. When you
look at the cost of selling a single 400 mL bottle of Coke, you will notice
that the cost of the ingredients is a small part - the cost of storage is
not affected, the cost of transportation is not affected, nor are
Then I must play the Devil's Nitpicker.
Both the Customary and metric claim must be true in the sense that average net
contents must equal or exceed the claimed amount. Since the 13.5 fl oz must be
true, they saved only about 0.76 mL. But they appear to be making a statement
that they are
I think you hit the nail on the head. The way the soft-drink industry is
going, I expect the 2L bottle to be replaced with the more familiar 2 qt.
bottle. I'm already seeing the 1/2 L bottles being phased out in favor of
16 oz.
Remek
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:46 AM, John M. Steele
And it is a convenient downsize in the face of rising sugar and HFCS prices.
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On May 16, 2010, at 8:24, Remek Kocz rek...@gmail.com wrote:
I think you hit the nail on the head. The way the soft-drink
industry is going, I expect the 2L bottle to
What do inspectors of net contents actually do?
NCWM prescribes a tedious statistical process of maximum allowed deviations
from mean values from selected samples of a product.
Are the measured values the SI values or the non-SI values?
Is there first a comparison of declared values (SI vs
I'm not an inspector and never worked in this industry. Accordingly to
published data, they must compare (by conversion accurate to at least six sig.
figures) the two declared contents and determine which claim is larger. They
then test to that claim, using a sample average and statistics
John,
On Page 11 of NIST Handbook 133, Internet 2005, is the requirement that the
larger of the two declarations must be verified (after comparison of SI and
non-SI declarations to at least six digits) as you note.
The Maximum Allowable Variation (MAV) addresses deviations from the larger
