• Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    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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      9 months ago

      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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        9 months ago

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

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    9 months ago

    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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    9 months ago

    Is 410g the gross weight perhaps?

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      9 months ago

      no, product weight

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

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        9 months ago

        no, product weight

        How do you know?

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            9 months ago

            How do you know the packaging was printed for the US market?

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              It’s actually more likely that it wasn’t printed for the US market (pasta in the US is most commonly sold in packages of 1 pound/453g), but that brand of pasta does sell to a US market which subjects them to US regulations. It seems weird to me that they would go through the effort of cheating on packaging only in some markets.

              It’s a lot more likely that the pictured disparity is caused by a combination of (1) the 410g figure being a nominal value with an accepted error margin, and (2) home kitchen scales not being the most precise instruments.

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                It’s actually more likely that it wasn’t printed for the US market

                The English-French bilingual packaging suggests this particular box was sold in Canada (although the brand isn’t familiar to me). I’m sure we have some similar law, though.

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          9 months ago

          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.