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Default Problems Making Purified Butter / Indian Ghee

On Mon, 15 Aug 2016, Sqwertz > wrote:

>I know the Epic Bar people and the mix-up in the weight/volume is
>being fixed. The products are sold in 12-floz jars. But animal fats
>- unlike vegetable fats - have to sold by weight and not by fluid
>ounces thanks to an obscure FDA rule. Since most fats are less dense
>than water they had to change the labeling and other documentation to
>1oz less than their fluid ounce equivalents. Some old documentation
>and labels still say 12oz, new stuff is rolling out saying 11oz.


Ahhh... Both my jars (the almost empty one and the new one) have 11 oz. The
picture at Amazon has 11 oz. I clicked the product correction link at
Amazon pointing out the 12 oz in the text did not agree with the label
picture.

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