If we receive raw ingredients that are underweight, would that be considered food fraud?
For example, a truckload of Cane Sugar is 850 bags of 50 pound bags of sugar (42,500 lbs total)
My contract price is $0.65 per pound and I was invoiced for and paid for the full truckload (42,500 lbs)
We found the bags weighed out to be 47.5 lbs, not 50 lbs. So we paid for 2000 pounds of sugar we didn't get.
Could that be considered food fraud or just a supply chain problem?
I'm wondering could the same be considered if we purchase drums of fruit juice (550 lbs) but only ended up receiving 535 lbs, for example.