How are companies able to measure the amount of calories and composition of the packaged food they are selling? How do we as consumers know it’s accurate?
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In the US and most developed countries, the FDA (or equivalent agency) sets protocols and standards for measuring the nutrition content of food.
Since these standards are well known, anyone with the expertise and resources can repeat these tests to verify, and if the producer is lying, they would face both public backlash and government sanctions.
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