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How to import bananas into the UK by weighing consignments and making simplified declarations.
Ensuring you get what you pay for.
Weights and measures - find out the law on trading standards for packaging and selling products
You must use metric measurements (grams, kilograms, millilitres or litres)…
Some goods must be sold in fixed sizes known as ‘specified quantities’.…
Packaged goods are products that are all of these: sold sealed between 5g…
Equipment for packaged goods The equipment you use to weigh or measure…
You must put the weight or volume of your packaged goods on the label. The…
What packaged goods are, how they are labelled, units of measurements used and compliance with weights and measures regulation.
Guidance for food businesses on the Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.
Slaughterhouses in Great Britain with a high throughput of pig carcases must send weekly pricing data to the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB).
Resources to support the commissioning and delivery of tier 2 behavioural weight management services for children, families and adults.
Explanations of the different terms you might see on your driving licence
Renewal application form for verified gross mass of containers
Find your nearest weighbridge if you need to weigh your van, lorry, trailer, tractor or other vehicle
Slaughterhouses in Great Britain with a high throughput of cattle carcases must send pricing data to AHDB weekly.
Information about how to pay the HGV levy for non-UK HGVs.
Abattoirs in the Pig Carcase Grading Scheme must abide by the regulations for dressing, weighing, grading and marking carcases.
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Indicative application document
Weights and Measures Act 1985 and subsequent Deregulation Order 1999 (as amended).
Find out how to calculate the weight of your aggregate and deduct the weight of added water for Aggregates Levy.
Marketing standards for poultry meat producers, manufacturers, retailers and distributors.
How to apply VAT rules to supplies, imports and export of gold and investment gold.
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