One of the most important problems of the glass industry is to lower the amount of defective products and to raise the quality of packaging material to meet the conditions of being filled on high-speed bottling lines. During the revision of GOST 13906-68 "Bottles of Liquid Foodstuffs - Technical Requirements," before the Branch of the State Scientific Research Inst for Glass, the following tasks were set up: a more exact definition of the individual indices of quality for bottles and testing methods; the introduction of new rules for the acceptance and establishment of requirements for products subject to certification by the State Sign of Quality. This article reviews current national and foreign standards and analyses the differences between various countries. The index for the resistance to internal hydrostatic pressure of the bottles is lower in GOST 13906 than in foreign standards. The determination of the hydrolytic class of stability is not specified in GOST 13906, whereas in other foreign standards the hydrolytic class of grading to which the bottle glass must belong is indicated.
