Weights and measures
If your business involves weighing and measuring when you provide goods or services to your customers, then ensuring weights and measures equipment is accurate is a major factor in the quality of the service you provide.
Officers check the accuracy of traders' weighing and measuring equipment - anything from a 40 tonne weighbridge to a pint in the local pub, ensuring goods sold by weight or measure are the right quantity. The trading standards team enforce regulations to ensure that goods sold in the borough are of the correct weight, length or volume. For further information and advice contact the trading standards team.
For more information view the weights and measurers section of The Department of Trade and Industry website.
For general trading standards information visit the Trading Standards Institute website and the Office of Fair Trading website.