[crashintomyorbit]

Hello! I'm posting here because despite being a work question, I assume it probably has an easy answer. 

I work for a place that imports products to sell from other countries but customs started asking for the mg of benzoate sodium in a product and I can't seem to find that info. Everything is in percentages. If I have a product that has 0.1% of Benzoate sodium, what does this mean? 0.1% of the total weight of the product? That would make a 150g product have 0.09 mg of benzoate, but I'm not sure if that's correct. Thank you for your assistance.

[mjc123]

How do you work that out? 0.1% of 150 g is 150 mg.

[crashintomyorbit]

I must have copied the wrong data, my bad. Yes, it should be .15g or 150 mg, but that's just assuming it works like that, would you know? If when a product contains 0.1% of benzoate, it means 0.1% of the product.

[Borek]

If when a product contains 0.1% of benzoate, it means 0.1% of the product.

That's basically what 0.1% means.