John, I generally have great confidence in the accuracy of your statements.
But, where do you find the statement that “the Feds only require 2.84 oz in a 5 oz can (56.8%)” of tuna? Filling accuracy of canned tuna is regulated by the NCWM, a conference of state, regional, and local regulators, not by a federal agency. Confirmation of expected Drained Net Mass is already the tested standard in the US by NCWM inspectors. Granted, the declaration in Canada of both net, and drained net is of more value to consumers. Gene Mechtly On Nov 20, 2015, at 8:43 AM, jmsteele9...@sbcglobal.net<mailto:jmsteele9...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: I'm a little surprised the Feds only require 2.84 oz in a 5 oz can (56.8%). This strikes me as a product that should be sold by drained weight as nobody uses that water. In Canada, it IS. A little Googling shows that Safeway Canada sells a roughly 6 oz can, labeled 170 g net weight, 120 g drained weight or 70.6% tuna. Obviously, Canadian regulations do a better job of protecting the consumer, American regulations do a better job of letting manufacturer/retailer fleece the consumer. ________________________________ From: "c...@traditio.com<mailto:c...@traditio.com>" <c...@traditio.com<mailto:c...@traditio.com>> To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu<mailto:usma@colostate.edu>> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 12:10 AM Subject: [USMA:54902] Even Obsolescent "Ounces" Can Be Deceptive At least with grams, you wouldn't have to use two decimal places! "Lawsuit: Safeway ripped off canned-tuna customers A $5 million class-action lawsuit filed in San Francisco accuses Safeway of shortchanging customers who purchased store-brand canned tuna. Ehder Soto of Aptos, Calif., said in court documents that government testing showed that cans of tuna he bought regularly from a local Safeway supermarket did not contain the full five ounces as advertised on the label, according to the Santa Cruz Sentinel. "I would not have purchased Safeway Chunk Light Tuna in Water if I had known that the cans were underfilled and underweight," Soto stated in court documents. The documents said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that 106 out of 108 Safeway tuna cans were underfilled. They averaged 2.29 ounces of pressed cake tuna, or 19.4 percent below the federally mandated minimum standard of fill 2.84 ounces, according to the lawsuit."
