English translation: swollen (or bulging) container
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French to English translations [PRO] Bus/Financial - Transport / Transportation / Shipping
French term or phrase:boîte bombeé
STABILITÉ
Non conformité :
Toute PALETTE DE PLUS DE 500 Kgs (1100 Lbs) AU 2e NIVEAU
Toute PALETTE DONT LE PRODUIT N'EST PAS À ANGLE DROIT
Toute PALETTISATION DONT LE DERNIER RANG EST INÉGAL
Toute PALETTE ENDOMMAGÉE (LONGERON BRISÉ OU AUTRE)
Toute PALETTE AVEC UNE ÉVIDENCE DE FRIMA / NEIGE SUR LE DESSUS
Tout PRODUITS DE CARGILL / CHAUDIÈRE / BOITES BOMBÉES
Explanation: Not completely sure of the context, but swelling is usually ian indications that formerly sterile contents (e.g., canned soup, sauce, etc.) have been contaminated.
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not a red herring at all, although I can see where you're coming from. It's just coincidence that a bulging tin is referred to as a tin that has "blown". It doesn't normally actually explode, although this can of course happen on very rare occasions. No, the danger of a blown tin lies more in the likelihood of contracting severe or even fatal food poisoning than from actually being blown up! It would of course be helpful to know what sort of "boites" these are supposed to be...
I think what is being discussed is specifically stability (of a stack of containers), and the objects concerned are large (500kg). A load of blown cans on a pallet would certainly be condemned (much stronger than not in conformity), but that fact alone would not affect the "stability".
it's just that it's usually contaminated food (the gasses produced by microbes) that causes tins to bulge. I can't think of any other reason why a tin would blow like that. It could of course simply have buckled due to external damage, but that isn't quite the same thing
I don't think this has anything to do with tin cans or spoiled food. "Bombé" just means that the surface is curved (or domed: the word makes no distinction between 2D and 3D curves), more often convex than concave. Since the heading is "stability", any convex object placed on top of or under another object would be unstable.
A more remote possibility is that they are talking about aerosol cans, but I doubt it, somehow...
Perhaps. But as Cargill is mentioned, IMO this is about containers (cans, boxes... whatever) that are bulging because the food they contain has started to spoil.
It sounds to me like it might mean boxes with (presumably curved) convex sides. What do you think?
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10 mins confidence:
blown tin/can
Explanation: low CR, as I don't know what sort of "boites" these are. But a bulging ("blown") tin of food has to be discarded, on the assumption that it is contaminated - producing gas, causing the tin to bulge. The same goes for dented tins, which could have become contaminated by air entering
Carol Gullidge United Kingdom Local time: 20:11 Native speaker of: English
Explanation: Not completely sure of the context, but swelling is usually ian indications that formerly sterile contents (e.g., canned soup, sauce, etc.) have been contaminated.
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cc in nyc Local time: 15:11 Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 12
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