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What packaged goods are, how they are labelled, units of measurements used and compliance with weights and measures regulation.
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…
Guidance for food businesses on the Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.
Guidance to help health and social care professionals and family members support people with learning disabilities to lose weight.
Practical advice and tools to support health and care professionals make brief interventions in weight management for adults.
More people living with obesity will have access to the newest and most effective obesity drugs to help cut NHS waiting lists, following the announcement of a £40 million two-year pilot today [Wednesday 7 June].
Training tools providing evidence-based healthy weight messages for the public health workforce to use in discussions with children, young people and families.
Practical advice and tools to support health and care professionals have conversations about weight management with children and their families.
Report you’ve changed a heavy goods vehicle (HGV) or trailer chassis, weight, tyres or brakes (a ‘notifiable alteration’) or change the weight you can carry.
Ensuring you get what you pay for.
For the first time in the UK, obese patients and people who are overweight with weight-related health problems could now have access to Mounjaro, currently used for Type 2 diabetes, to help manage their weight and support weight loss.
Weights & Biases provides an MLOps platform to help organisations gain auditable and explainable end-to-end machine learning workflows for reproducibility and governance.
Fake, potentially harmful Ozempic and Saxenda pens have been found in the UK: you should only access these medicines via a medical prescription.
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