Gregory's Serverafter several emails with various standards-authoring organizations, I haven't yet found any contemporary standard that includes the perishable label. It may be a non-standard label!
also i discovered this fun little guy this morning:
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 I emailed the Olivetti Archives a couple weeks ago and have not heard back. I have been looking for information on Herbert Lindinger and it looks like he may still be alive! Or if he died, nobody has updated his wikipedia page. I have not found a contact for him yet but have emailed a German university he was associated with to see if they have any way to contact him. What if this is the designer of the label and he is still alive??  I was a kid in the 70s and it seemed to be a boom time for graphic design (especially that used on public infrastructure).. Also worth a look at is the work of Margaret Calvert from Britain, who designed many fonts used on British transport related infrastructure and the current set of road signs which are still seen by everyone in the UK today |
UPDATE: I tracked down a copy of ANSI MH6.1-1968, "Pictorial Markings for Handling of Goods" at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City and (once we got copyright permission from ANSI) they scanned it for me. It's a cool old document but it did not contain the PERISHABLE symbol.
With ANSI MH6.1 out of the running, there is one remaining likely candidate in the bibliography from Henry Dreyfuss's 1972 "Symbols Sourcebook" and that is a system of signs Herbert Lindinger made or compiled for Olivetti