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Incredible story of ever shrinking bread

Only one in four loaves of bread randomly selected in a city supermarket met the weight indicated on the wrapper.

In what could be the biggest fraud on consumers, one loaf of bread weighed on a supermarket’s own scale indicated it was short by a tenth – a 41 grammes - of the 400 grammes shown on the label.

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