NBS Special Publication, Issue 345The Bureau, 1971 |
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Page 37
... factor in the purchase or no- purchase decision , but neither storage facilities nor precise units are as likely to be as important as is total yield or number of portions . POSSIBLE CHANGES Current trends in the food market indicate ...
... factor in the purchase or no- purchase decision , but neither storage facilities nor precise units are as likely to be as important as is total yield or number of portions . POSSIBLE CHANGES Current trends in the food market indicate ...
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... factors . Young people working with metric language and units in school would not face the same difficulties as older consumers . It is to be expected that consumers from the lower economic and educational levels would be most confused ...
... factors . Young people working with metric language and units in school would not face the same difficulties as older consumers . It is to be expected that consumers from the lower economic and educational levels would be most confused ...
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... factors , helping consumers to think in the new units . The impact of conversion to the metric system on consumer purchases of fresh foods could be expected to be relatively minor . Where household scales are used with these foods , the ...
... factors , helping consumers to think in the new units . The impact of conversion to the metric system on consumer purchases of fresh foods could be expected to be relatively minor . Where household scales are used with these foods , the ...
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... factors as training and experience in food preparation , personal standards , haste , and occasion for which the food is to be used . A number of women with whom we have spoken to about use of measuring devices said that they are likely ...
... factors as training and experience in food preparation , personal standards , haste , and occasion for which the food is to be used . A number of women with whom we have spoken to about use of measuring devices said that they are likely ...
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... factor which hastened the change was a growing trend in teaching medical students to use the metric system . Later , when they went into prac- tice and found apothecaries ' dosage still in the catalogues and labeling of firms which had ...
... factor which hastened the change was a growing trend in teaching medical students to use the metric system . Later , when they went into prac- tice and found apothecaries ' dosage still in the catalogues and labeling of firms which had ...
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