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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…
Using an ecological momentary assessment to evaluate your digital health product.
How a product complies with EU safety, health and environmental requirements, and how to place a CE marking on your product.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
Ensuring you get what you pay for.
Information for businesses.
Guidance to help organisations choose a monitoring approach for stack emissions to air that meets Environment Agency and MCERTS requirements (formerly part of M2).
Information for healthcare professionals on how pulse oximeters are regulated, home use and issues to look out for when using the devices
How OPSS contributes to international legal metrology and who to contact.
Where to install your meter, checking it's accurate, how often to check it and the records you must keep.
These are the maximum uncertainty values to assess whether periodic measurement results comply with emission limit values in environmental permits (formerly part of M2).
What packaged goods are, how they are labelled, units of measurements used and compliance with weights and measures regulation.
Guidance for businesses.
This document sets out the strategy for the UK national measurement system.
Find the measurement unit codes for Data Elements 2/3 and 4/4 when making a declaration to the Customs Declaration Service (Appendix 20).
What to expect when the Valuation Office Agency visit and measure non-domestic property.
For manufacturers of long-term samplers and test laboratories who carry out testing of equipment.
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