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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…
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.
What packaged goods are, how they are labelled, units of measurements used and compliance with weights and measures regulation.
Abattoirs in the Pig Carcase Grading Scheme must abide by the regulations for dressing, weighing, grading and marking carcases.
Now the National Measurement Office.
Provisional quarterly data from the adult tier 2 weight management services data collection.
Statistics on primary school children who are overweight, measured in reception and year 6 and presented for different ethnic groups.
A longitudinal cohort analysis of data from the National Child Measurement Programme in England.
Slaughterhouses in Great Britain with a high throughput of cattle carcases must send pricing data to AHDB weekly.
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