The JJF 1244-2010 Rules of Metrology Testing for Package of Food and Cosmetics was ratified by the “Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine” on 2 March 2010 and came into force since 1 April 2010. It was drafted by the “Taskforce of Metrology Testing on Commodities in Quantitative Package”, a group that is affiliated to the “National Metrology Technology Committee of Legal Metrology Testing management” which is responsible for the management of this Rule.

This rule is compiled as one of many responses to facilitating the building of resource-saving and environmentally-friendly society by restricting excessive packaging in food and cosmetics and in accordance with the Measures of Metrology Inspection Management of Commodities in Quantitative Packaging and the mandatory national standard GB 23350-2009 restriction of excessive packaging for commodities: food and cosmetic.

This rule mainly applies to the metrological supervision and testing of gap rate of the package in food (including moon-cake) and cosmetics as well as the examination of the ratio between package cost and product sales price.