Press Release - Consultation on Specified Food Quantities Proposals aimed at giving consumers more choice over the measures of food, drink and alcoholic beverages they can buy in the UK were published for consultation today by the National Weights and Measures Laboratory.
It could see restrictions lifted on the sizes in which unwrapped bread and other food are sold, together with proposed changes to allow wine to be sold in smaller measures for tasting and sampling purposes.
The consultation also asks for views on whether draught beer and cider should be available for sale in a new imperial measure. It consults on whether a new two-thirds of a pint measure should be available to drinkers alongside the current legal measures of a pint, half- a pint and a third of a pint. This has been proposed by the beer and pub trade to allow greater flexibility in the service of draught beers, especially those with a higher alcohol content.
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