It makes sense though. Say you claim there’s 10g per 100g of something in your product. Any random scoop of 100g is not always equal. The 20% range means that any random scoop of 100grams must contain between 12 and 8 grams of something.
Due to personell shortages, this will obviously not be tested enough. But ideally it is and when an average of a dundred tests comes out at something other that 10grams per 100 gram, than they’ll have to change it. I gues… I’m don’t know the procedures.
The same goes for eu food labels.
It makes sense though. Say you claim there’s 10g per 100g of something in your product. Any random scoop of 100g is not always equal. The 20% range means that any random scoop of 100grams must contain between 12 and 8 grams of something.
Due to personell shortages, this will obviously not be tested enough. But ideally it is and when an average of a dundred tests comes out at something other that 10grams per 100 gram, than they’ll have to change it. I gues… I’m don’t know the procedures.
https://food.ec.europa.eu/document/download/3eb7952a-43b8-4c6a-8091-349ea707a9a7_en?filename=labelling_nutrition-vitamins_minerals-guidance_tolerances_1212_en.pdf
(Tolerancetable on page 7)
Here’s an the eu regulation on food labels. Vitamins and minerals even have a lowerbound of 50 % and an upperboud of 35% and 45% respectively.
Somehow “8 or 12” sounds a lot better than “20% variance”