Practical food law - weights and measures
Why attend
This workshop is based on well-received customised training previously undertaken by Campden BRI. It will be of particular benefit to production and quality assurance staff working in companies whose products are weight marked.
Workshop content
The Weights and Measures Act, and subsidiary regulations including
- Principles (nominal quantity, the e-mark, tolerable negative error, the three rules for packers)
- Packers' and importers' responsibilities (Inspector's Reference Test, quantity checks and records, equipment requirements, labelling)
- Abolition of prescribed quantities
- Quantity marking
- Setting up a control system and statistical process control
- Day-to-day control of production
- Record keeping
- Review procedures
- Remedial actions
- Offences, penalties and due diligence
"Although quantity control rules apply to the production and marketing of most food and drink, the detailed and complex legislation can often appear baffling to the
non-specialist. As a result controls are often operated by rote, with little real understanding of the principles involved.
This one-day workshop will help to demystify average weight legislation, and give delegates the confidence to review the efficiency and effectiveness of their current systems"
Alison Sharper – Event Director
Further information
For further information or to check availability contact the Training Department on +44 (0)1386 842104 or