Pre-packaging Services

Packaging

Packaging is that which is intended to be left over after use, except for items naturally present in the product. Use includes consumption and subjecting to a treatment. Packaging is also understood to mean packaging material. Product is also understood to mean ‘good(s)’.

Pre-packaged product

A product is pre-packaged when it is packaged in any kind of packaging without the purchaser being present and is packaged such that the quantity of product in the packaging cannot be altered without the packaging having to be altered.

Contents (of a pre-packaging)

The contents (of a pre-packaging) is the quantity of product in the packaging.

Nominal quantity (product in pre-packaging)

The nominal quantity of the product in a pre-packaging is the quantity indicated on the packaging.

Note: the symbol Qn is used to indicate ‘nominal quantity’.

Maximum permissible error (of a pre-packaging)

The maximum permissible error in minus of a pre-packaging is the difference, in a negative sense, between the actual quantity and the nominal quantity of a product in this pre-packaging. The maximum permissible error in minus is also indicated as “Fmax”. There are different abbreviations for the limit that results when the nominal quantity is reduced by the maximum permissible error in minus. Examples of which are the To limit and TU1 limit and Tabs limit and TU2 limit.