Stamped glass question

try asking the local trading standards, usually run by the local Council

I've had some correspondence with Trading Standards over this. It all goes back to the European Union’s Measuring Instruments Directive of

The gist of it is that you can pretty much stick the CE stamps anywhere you like now. They don't have to be visible to the customer, they just have to be there and visible to any passing Trading Standards inspector. Line measure glasses still tend to have lines on the side, with the CE mark close by, but the problem is with brim measures, where the marks can go anywhere. The worst offender by a long chalk is Utopia, who really don't seem to care about visibility or even legibility.

For the record, here's what needs to appear somewhere on an approved glass:

The letters C and E, which stand for "Conformité Européenne" or European Conformity

The letter M - the Metrology mark

Two digits - representing the year, e.g. 11 for 2011

Sundry additional digits - representing the verifier of the mark, which is usually the manufacturer, specially authorised to check their own work

And the measure itself, which might read PINT or HALF PINT or just PT, or indeed PINT TO LINE

The full spiel will read something like this: "CE M11 0125 PINT" Probably followed by the maker's name, e.g. "UTOPIA"

I do wish the trade would refuse to buy these ridiculous bottom-stamped glasses and stick to the ones that have the mark where we, the paying punters, can see it. I must remember to drop a line to Wetherspoon's about it.

Anyone remember the Prisoner episode called The Girl Who Was Death? In it McGoohan drinks a pint of bitter and stamped on the bottom is the phrase You Have Just Been Poisoned.

Wasn't there a similar thing in The Avengers too "You have just been murdered"?

Paul

On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:28:14 -0000, Joyce Whitchurch wrote: []

Indeed. I had a plastic "glass" that had no CE label in a spoon on Friday (it being the season for nutters to go to the pub).