When Is 200Gm Not 200Gm??

[pastafreak]

Answer...
When Marks & Spencers says it isn't
When the number 200 includes packaging...What The Funicular???
When it's "averaged out"...some will be less,some more. So a 17% difference is OK then?
When "other stores do it"
All of this from an-oh-so-sure-of-herself youngster.

And I asked...what if I buy ten "200gm" packages...and 8 weigh only165...do I get a rebate...money off...an apology...an agreement that this is a rip off??
Any of the above?

I was then told its legal. Really??
Any thoughts?

[Hopkirk]

Why not complain to the Head Office?

[THECORBYLOON]

Products must contain on average the volume or weight on the package if it has the odd shaped European "e" symbol. There is a tolerance according to various weight and volume bands but they can be up to twice that tolerance. For a packet said to weigh 165g the tolerance is 4.5% so twice that is 9%. Legally then, it could have been 9% under the average weight.

I used to work in a quality control dept for a company making products for various stores including M & S and the machines were always set to ensure that the M & S packets always contained at least the weight on the packet.