cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11612572

I bought 175 g pack of salami which had 162 g of salami as well.

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You gota report that to the consumer goods or something like. They can get fined very big deneros for selling under weight goods. Like it’s a realy big deal.

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Sine when is pasta not 500g?

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Shrinkflation, theft, consumer fraud

They’re literally skimming money out of people by doing that.

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Since 1877

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In the US they are usually sold in pounds, so 450g/ea or so.

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Is 410g the gross weight perhaps?

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no, product weight

if it is liquid it should have gross and net. packaging never counts as product weight…yet

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no, product weight

How do you know?

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Because

The FPLA relates to the net quantity of contents information on packages, goods, or commodities that are sold on the basis of weight or measure (i.e., it does not apply to such products as electronic or industrial equipment that have contents sold by the quantity of their contents and appliances

https://www.nist.gov/standardsgov/compliance-faqs-packaging-and-labeling-us#2

Not trying to be snarkey but it literally was a 2 second search. There are laws against this, and it used to be standard practice to put a small amount more than actual weight (volume) listed bit now it seems they stopped giving a shit and dare you to question or sue them into compliance.

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At least in the US, federal regulation requires the net weight printed on the packaging

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The weight is never exact, buy a few packages and see if the are within a standard deviation of the listed weight.

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confused by this.

to calculate a standard deviation OP would have to buy a few packets anyways.

if you maybe wanna buy 100 to find what the standard deviation is, by definition, only 68% of them will be within a standard deviation (assuming the weights are normally distributed)

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Usually foods are regulated that the standard deviation falls within some range of grams. Sorry if I was unclear.

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