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

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    8 months ago

    That brings up a question, is that 410g required to be just the edible product or could it include the weight of the packaging?

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      8 months ago

      There’s an allowed margin of error, too. If they happen to have gram-level precision, but have 10g leeway for a given product, this might be a good way to save scrape out a bit more margin.

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        8 months ago

        That would be easy to prevent though with an additional requirement: The average weight over N products must be within X% of the specified weight. This way the producer cannot intentionally underfill.