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Food plants want a pallet they can wash, which points at a smooth moulded deck, and they should ask the maker for resin and colourant paperwork rather than a blanket approval. It tends to lean on nestable or stackable that washes down, open or closed deck by product, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about resin and colourant documentation, since FDA does not approve pallet models.",{"h2":80,"blocks":81},"The empty return",[82,84],{"t":10,"text":83},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 5 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Sioux Falls sent back 1,200 empty pallets in a week, that would be 6,000 pallets. 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