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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…
Resources to support the commissioning and delivery of tier 2 behavioural weight management services for children, families and adults.
Resources for business.
Helping public health practitioners conducting evaluations – using outcome evaluations to find out if an intervention works.
What packaged goods are, how they are labelled, units of measurements used and compliance with weights and measures regulation.
Ensuring you get what you pay for.
Sets out process and expectations on planning performance and decision making.
Information for businesses.
Practical advice and tools to support health and care professionals have conversations about weight management with children and their families.
Main changes and implications, including the required actions for organisations with type examination or conformity assessment certificates issued by NMRO.
Analysis: differences between the current Directive 2009/23/EC and the new Directive 2014/31/EU, for non-automatic weighing instruments.
Find out how to calculate the weight of your aggregate and deduct the weight of added water for Aggregates Levy.
Listings of numbers for identifying items of weighing or measuring equipment.
Guidance for food businesses on the Weights and Measures (Food) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.
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