It seems like all packaged foods do this now

Krudler@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 807 points –

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

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Most of our packaging machines require < 1%, target <0.5% variance (both ways). Honestly in practice, over a whole batch the total variance is extremely tiny.

Add to this story the accuracy of a household, not-calibrated scale? Yeah I'd say this seems OK.

What do you make?

Tolerances for food items depend a lot on item size, shape, and irregularity.

I mean.. that's a good point. I only make bulk materials, like 1 ton supersaks, and we tend to OVERfill so customers don't complain, with the target still being close to zero for a whole batch.