6661 International Standard (ISO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATIONMEXAYHAPOAHAA OPIAHM3AUMA IO CTAHAAPTM3AUMWORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION Fresh fruit and vegetables - Arrangement of parallelepipedic packages in land transport vehicles Fruits et legumes frais - Disposition des emballages parallelepipédiques dans les vehicules de transport terrestre First edition - 1983-12-01 sO6661-1983 (E) UDC621.798.143 : 656.1 : 634.1/635.6 Ref. No. ISO 6661-1983 (E) Descriptors : agricultural products, fruits, vegetables, storage, food storage packages, transportation. Standardizatic Price based on 4 pages Not for Resale Foreword Iso (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies (ISO member bodies). The work of developing International Standards is carried out through Iso technical committees. Every member body interested in a subject for which a technical committee has been authorized has the right to be represented on that committee. International organizations, governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with Iso, also take part in the work. Draft International Standards adopted by the technical committees are circulated to the member bodies for approval before their acceptance as International Standards by the Iso Council. Agricultural food products, and was circulated to the member bodies in July 1982. It has been approved by the member bodies of the following countries : Austria Iran South Africa, Rep. of Brazil Iraq Spain Czechoslovakia Israel Sri Lanka Egypt, Arab Rep. of Kenya Tanzania Ethiopia Korea, Rep. of Turkey France Malaysia USSR Germany, F. R. Netherlands Yugoslavia Hungary Portugal India Romania The member body of the following country expressed disapproval of the document on technical grounds : Australia ? International Organization forStandardization,1983 Printed in Switzerland Copyright International Organization for Standardization No reproduction or networking permited without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO 6661-1983 (E) INTERNATIONALSTANDARD Fresh fruit and vegetables - Arrangement of parallelepipedic packages in land transport vehicles 0 Introduction 3.3 layer : All the rows at the same level (see figure 2). Long experience shows that while the quality of packing has an influence on the preservation of fresh fruits and vegetables in 4 Non-palletized packages the course of distribution,and in particular of transportation, the manner of arranging packages within the vehicles also plays 4.1 General recommendations an important role. Account should be taken in this respect of the fact that packages without covers are now used in very 4.1.1 The packages should permit stable loading. many instances and for a large number of products. 4.1.2 The packages should be conceived in such a manner The arrangements recommended differ according to whether that stacking can be carried out with minimum risk to their con- pallets are used or not. tents, especially if they do not have a cover. The packages should also permit adequate ventilation of their contents. 1 Scope and field of application 4.1.3 The packages should constitute, whether with or ThisInternationalStandardgivesguidanceonthearrangement without covers, compact loads. of packages of fresh fruits and vegetables in land transport vehicles. 4.1.4 In the length of the vehicle, the load should not present any discontinuity and should lean against the two end walls of It is applicable to parallelepipedic packages constituted of any the vehicle. material, with or without covers, and whether palletized or not. 4.1.5 Loading should be to the same height throughout. 2 References 4.2 Special recommendations Iso 3394, Dimensions of rigid rectangular packages 4.2.1 Arrangement of packages Transportpackages. The following International Standard should also be con- The packages should be loaded with no intervening spaces be- tweenthemandshouldbearrangedintransversecompact sulted : rows