CFR > Title 7 - Agriculture > SUBTITLE B—Regulations of the Department of Agriculture > CHAPTER I—AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Standards, Inspections, Marketing Practices), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (parts 27 to 206) > SUBCHAPTER C—REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS UNDER THE AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACT OF 1946 (parts 51 to 75) > PART 51—FRESH FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND OTHER PRODUCTS 1,2 (INSPECTION, CERTIFICATION, AND STANDARDS) > SUBPART —United States Standards for Grades of Grapefruit (Texas and States Other Than Florida, California, and Arizona) (§51.620 to §51.653) > 51.630—Standard Pack.

51.630—Standard Pack.

(a) Fruits shall be fairly uniform in size, unless specified as uniform in size. When packed in approved containers, fruit shall be arranged according to the approved and recognized methods.
(b) “Fairly uniform in size” means that not more than the number of fruit permitted in § 51.628, Tables I and II, are outside the ranges of diameters given in Table III.
Table III—7/10 Bushel Carton
Pack size/number of grapefruit Diameter in inches
Minimum Maximum
18 415/16 59/16
23 45/16 5
27 42/16 412/16
32 315/16 48/16
36 313/16 45/16
40 310/16 42/16
48 39/16 314/16
56 35/16 310/16
(c) “Uniform in size” means that not more than the number of fruit permitted in § 51.628, Tables I and II, vary more than the following amounts:
(1) 32 size and smaller—not more than six-sixteenths inch in diameter; and
(2) 27 size and larger—not more than nine-sixteenths inch in diameter.
(d) In order to allow for variations, other than sizing, incident to proper packing, not more than 5 percent of the packages in any lot may fail to meet the requirements of standard pack.

Code of Federal Regulations

[66 FR 48788, Sept. 24, 2001]