• Dabundis@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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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      9 months ago

      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.