semi-skim

[Victor Steinbok]

There are some common schemes, but they are not standardized. Some may
be proprietary, some regional. Foil color scheme on glass bottles is
always different from cap color scheme on plastic or the print color on
cardboard. The most common coordination that I've come across has red
for whole, green for 2%, blue for 1% and yellow for skim. But I've also
seen purple on both 2% and whole, white and blue caps (plastic) on skim,
etc. It's usually not a big issue because milk-fat content is one of the
few product characteristics that is labeled in big font on packaging in
the US. It's more important in countries where the labeling may be less
conspicuous. Semiotic issues involving product packaging and labeling
can be quite interesting.

     VS-)

On 2/28/2011 11:14 AM, Chris Waigl wrote:
> ... In contrast, there doesn't seem to be a label color convention
> here in the US.
> ...
>
> Chris Waigl
> (*) I moved from London, UK to the Fairbanks, AK, US area and am having to go through some minor cultural adjustment here and there.

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