There are rules which regulate the way businesses weigh, measure and label packaged goods.

You can also see our guides on labelling food products, packaging foods, how to label and package goods being shipped out of the UK and working with the Port Health Authorities.

See our guide on how to label and package goods being shipped out of the UK.

Kate Lowery, a Whole Foods spokeswoman, said her company agreed that the law was flawed, but said that as a chain selling organic whole-wheat bread, it had no wish to label goods as possibly carcinogenic.

United States officials, citing the frequent use of the transshipment ruse of labeling goods for delivery to Bosnia and Herzegovina that were actually sent to Serbia, say they favor tightening sanctions on Yugoslavia to bring an end to the war in Bosnia.

The packages should be labeled "personal goods," with the value and a brief description of the item.

For more information, see our guide on how to label and package goods being shipped out of the UK.

I notice the deficiencies and the great delays in the process of labelling goods in the languages of the new Member States that, as of 1 January 2007, became official EU languages.

Criminals often profit from illegal shipments, as traffickers involved in the scam often trick authorities by not labelling goods as electronics, by pretending they are for re-use, or by hiding them in the middle of a container for shipment.

I believe that it even is more important to label processed goods containing beef and beef products than to label the meat itself, even if this is difficult.