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A certain amount of dirt should be expected when one purchases produce. The Gemara outlines reasonable amounts of dirt that might be found surrounding different types of produce. But perhaps the dirt is not there incidentally; perhaps the seller placed more than the expected amount of dirt to the container of produce assuming that the buyer would not notice the difference and thus pay more money for less produce.
On our daf, the Gemara brings Rav Huna’s teaching that a buyer can sift the grain that was purchased, and if he finds that there is more than a quarter kav of waste he can demand that the seller replace the entire amount that he had agreed to sell, not only the three-quarters that was to be expected.
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