innacurate food labels...

[oneshot]

so heres the deal. last week the grocery store had 80/20 beef rolls on sale for 1.50$ per pound. id usually prefer leaner beef than that, but i couldnt pass up a deal that good. i decided i would do an experiment to determine exactly how much fat i can strain out of it. cooking 1 lb in a skillet, i drained and squeezed as much grease as possible out of it 3-4 times while cooking into a glass. after that i placed the glass in the fridge and allowed the water and fat to seperate and solidify. then i scooped out as much fat as possible, leaving the water behind and measuring the fat. i came up with 7 tablespoons of pure fat (or at least it looked pretty pure). according to most places i checked, that should be around 15 grams of fat per tablespoon which equals 105 grams of fat + whatever amount is still in the meat. according to the label, the entire pound should only contain 80 grams of fat. it kinda pissed me off how innacurate the label was and makes me wonder how far off all labels can be. thoughts? anyone see any fallicies in my experiment? i think im gonna send them a letter or email bitching about what i determined and can hopefully get some free stuff or coupons or something out of it

[**TOP**]

Well its just like when you see fat 0 in a product it doesnt mean its completly fat free it could have 0.5 fat but they are not required to place that on the label. 0.5 grams of fat may not seem to be alot but consider that in high amounts and overtime!!

[oneshot]

i dont expect it to be accurate to the tee, but to be this far off is outrageous. thats 25 grams more fat then the label says the whole pound should contain, and thats not even considering the amount of fat left in the meat. cant rely on the fda for anything i guess

[oneshot]

and being as there is so much more fat than stated, that means there is less protein as well

[FireGuy]

They are required to be within a certain percentage of whats stated on the label but I cant for the life of me remember what that percentage is. I do remember it's a lot more than should be allowed.

[oneshot]

i looked around a bit and it suposidly might be because many grocers and meat packers use a really old outdated machine to measure the fat content. the fda claims to be cracking down this and other stuff like that. some stores (cosco was the biggest on the list i think) now are starting to carry some new machine that apparantly does a much better job at measuring fat content. i think im still gonna send them a complaining letter or email and hope to get some sympathy coupons or something haha.