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Fair Food Pricing
NIST’s Office of Weights and Measures helps protect consumers and businesses and ensures fair trading for grocery stores, restaurants and customers.
For example, ice glaze is applied to many frozen seafood products to maintain the quality of the product, but it can add 10% to 40% extra weight to each package — weight that customers should not be charged for.
NIST Handbook 133 provides a test for “Checking the Net Contents of Packaged Goods,” along with many other test procedures that are adopted as part of regulation in most states.
NIST develops and updates these inspection procedures and trains state regulatory officials on these tests.
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