slack fill

noun

noun

Business, Manufacturing The inadequate filling of a package so that it contains too little of the product.

[…] consumers don't understand chemical terms, and consumers really don't have a problem with slack fills, information and label type size.1983, Processed Prepared Food, volume 152, page 41:

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