Show size of containers regulated by law federal act prescribes dimensions men of nf baskets caskets baskets hampers and other containers in which fruit vegetables and produce are marketed must tills this season conform to the standard container act passed by the national congress in 1928 or pretty well everybody yer body concerned will buffer because the law which uses fixes the sizes of the containers was passed by the national congress and based upon a clause of 0 the constitution ution the weights and measures clause no other body state count county y city or village tan can pass laws or ordinances din ances which will willa make illegal the use of the baskets established by the nat national lonal lav imi or legal the use of packages which are not in accordance with afie the national law the standard container act required bequir ed eight years to get through congress where it was introduced early to in 1920 it was oran drawn at the instance of manufacturers rs of baskets and equipment and interests engaged in commerce I 1 in n vegetables eatables and produce and its result su t has been to decrease by 67 per cent the number of different sizes of hampers and by 50 per cent the number of sizes of splint baskets used in the marketing of these commodities the resultant standardization has resulted in great savings to the manufacturers rs and u ers as well as making things simpler for the purchaser the law Is sufficiently full of teeth that prosecutions may he brought against nearly zi arly all parties concerned in the use of a container which does not fulfill the requirements of the law and the containers themselves may be confiscated and destroyed |