Sausage contained 104% meat

A Swedish man has reported a charcuterie in the north of Sweden to the Consumer Agency (Konsumentverket) because according to the label there is too much meat in the sausages. The man, who purchased his sausages in the ski resort of Åre, was surprised to find that the meat content was 104 percent.

“Personally I can’t accept that anything contains over 100 percent. And this sausage couldn’t possibly contain more than 100 percent meat as there are other ingredients stated on the label,” he wrote in the report. After reading the label, the man asked the shop how the percentage of meat in the sausages could be so high.

He was told that more meat is required in making the sausage than actually ends up in the product. However, not satisfied with this he decided to report the misleading label to the consumer agency.

At Trångsvikens Chark AB, the charcuterie that make the sausages, they agree that the labeling can be difficult to understand. CEO Marcus Färnström explained that what it actually means is 104g of meat has been used per every 100g sausage. “Of course there is a different way to declare the ingredients and perhaps that is what we’re going to have to do,” he said.