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Drink measures to be checked
Aug 14 2008 by Alastair McNeill, Hamilton Advertiser
TRADING Standards officers will visit South Lanarkshire pubs, restaurants and hotels this month to ensure customers are getting a fair deal when buying spirits.
By law, spirits like gin, rum, vodka and whisky can only be sold in 25ml or 35ml quantities and a notice must be displayed telling customers which measures are in use.
In checks in the last two years, officers were sold short measures in 45 per cent. of cases. Where a short measure is found, action taken ranges from offering advice to the business to reporting the matter to the procurator fiscal.
Peter Sherry, Trading Standards manager, said: "Trading Standards officers have been checking for short measures in alcohol sales since modern-day weights and measures legislation came into being in the 1960s.
“However, the results of the past few years show it is clearly still an area of trade that requires stringent monitoring.”
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