Investigating the accuracy of the mass of locally packed daily consumption goods

The ability to make accurate measurements is one of the essential foundations of an advanced industrial society. This ability is the pivot around which trade, commerce and society revolve. Everyday extremely large number and variety of items are in the selling buying process in our surroundings for a wide variety of purposes. The prices and important decisions are based on measurements. Bearing this in mind Ethiopia is one of the country in which the economy is growing at an alarming rate, thus the research was aimed on investigating the accuracy of the mass of selected locally packed daily consumption food items which are on market in the country, those were coffee, ‘Berbere’ /Powdered chili or Ethiopian Spice Blend/, ‘Kolo’ /The cherished Ethiopian Snack/ and ‘Shiro’ /Powdered Chickpeas or broad bean/, in which packages labeled 1000 gm, 500 gm and 250 gm were considered. The methodology used for the research was cross sectional method and a total of 455 locally packed items were collected from 377 shops randomly and the collected data’s were measured in laboratory and One-Sample Test and the Mean Difference were computed using SPSS version 20 Software and the numerical results were displayed using tables and the results obtained were compared with the international standards. The overall findings of the study revealed that the locally packed items meets the standard. Accordingly, conclusions were drawn based up on the findings and recommendations were made from observations.