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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Except no. First issue it's messured wrong. You messure a full package and then an empty one in the factory. Losses during shipping and so on is the problem of the customer. Especially meat looses a lot of water. People don't weigh the water in the cloth.

Also the little e (estimated sign, 76/211/EEC) besides the package does specially allow variations. Only the entire batch must be correct on average. But there is a limit on how much variations is allowed. And big companies are closely watched.