They say “contains less than 0.5%” because that’s the cutoff that makes something legally beer. It more than likely has none, much of the time. That’s just the law (US):
> 0.5% it’s beer
< 0.5% it’s not beer
So they label it as <0.5% simply to show that it’s in the latter category.
They say “contains less than 0.5%” because that’s the cutoff that makes something legally beer. It more than likely has none, much of the time. That’s just the law (US):
> 0.5% it’s beer
< 0.5% it’s not beer
So they label it as <0.5% simply to show that it’s in the latter category.