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Mistakes come after approval too. Some are on purpose. Most of the labeling mistakes I see are on foreign products shipped here. They are quite sloppy so my conclusion is that enforcement is nil

If your pea sized brain can only grasp big main stream food processors doing it correctly and honestly, fine. They are just part of the story

Here's what you said, Mensa:

It seems to me these are often not listed in order so as to trick the consumer

I don't care if it's a domestic packer or a foreign one. It doesn't matter if they are big or small. Labeling requirements are heavily regulated and enforced. Any organization willfully misrepresenting their ingredient table will pay huge fines (if they're domestic) and remain under the burden and expense of the FDA microscope. If they are foreign, their products may be banned altogether. Foreign suppliers must still meet our stringent labeling requirements. Our food importing regulations state:

All food products imported into the U.S.A. are required to meet the same standards as domestic goods. To enter the U.S.A., imported foods must be pure, wholesome, safe to eat, produced under sanitary conditions, and must meet all U.S. standards including having informative and truthful labeling in English.

To say, like you so ignorantly did, that ingredients are "often" (now you've changed it to "some" - LOL!) not listed in order of predominance, and that any mislabeling is done to "trick" the consumer is laughable and totally unsupported by your posts on this thread. You say you read the labels but you don't know shinola about what you're reading. You wouldn't have a clue if the ingredient table was accurate or not. You use the word "sloppy" to describe the labeling of imports but you have no experience with this that would give you any credibility for arriving at such a conclusion. This is just another example of you jumping in on something that you don't know jack squat about and then running in reverse as fast as you can when someone calls you on it. You anti-industry, bigger government populist conservatives sure like to complain about things you know nothing about.