A load cell, preferably for an aseptic platform scale, which load cell - is embodied rod-shaped along a longitudinal axis, - consists of a force input element and a force output element and a force measuring element arranged axially therebetween, and - in which load cell the force F to be measured is introducible perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis, - wherein the force measuring element is rotationally symmetric and rounded in shape along the longitudinal axis, - wherein the force measuring element consists of a metal tubular sleeve with a bending beam arranged therein, said bending beam comprising two connecting pieces (13, 16) and an inner middle part arranged therebetween, said inner middle part comprising measuring spring portions and strain gauges applied on said measuring spring portions, - wherein the ends of the bending beam are connected to metal ring elements (5, 6) which are oriented transversely to the longitudinal axis and which are welded to the tubular sleeve at their radial edge region such that the bending beam is hermetically tightly enclosed, and - wherein the ring elements (5, 6) include flexurally soft areas, such that almost no force shunt coupling occurs between the tubular sleeve and the bending beam and the force input element and the force output element, characterised in that - the tubular sleeve is flexurally rigid and the force input element and the force output element are rotationally symmetric and rounded in shape in portions along the longitudinal axis, - the flexurally soft areas of the ring elements (5, 6) are embodied as concentrically encircling thin areas, - an overload protection means is provided inside the bending beam, said overload protection means including an axial overload beam with a stop head in a recess of the middle part of the bending beam, said stop head projecting into an extended recess portion of one end of the bending beam, and - the extended recess portion is provided with at least one bore, wherein one portion of the cross-section of the bore extends in the end of the bending beam and another portion of the cross-section extends in the stop head, and into which bore an alignment pin which leaves a defined gap to the end of the bending beam is fixed. - is embodied rod-shaped along a longitudinal axis, - consists of a force input element and a force output element and a force measuring element arranged axially therebetween, and - in which load cell the force F to be measured is introducible perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis, - wherein the force measuring element is rotationally symmetric and rounded in shape along the longitudinal axis, - wherein the force measuring element consists of a metal tubular sleeve with a bending beam arranged therein, said bending beam comprising two connecting pieces (13, 16) and an inner middle part arranged therebetween, said inner middle part comprising measuring spring portions and strain gauges applied on said measuring spring portions, - wherein the ends of the bending beam are connected to metal ring elements (5, 6) which are oriented transversely to the longitudinal axis and which are welded to the tubular sleeve at their radial edge region such that the bending beam is hermetically tightly enclosed, and - wherein the ring elements (5, 6) include flexurally soft areas, such that almost no force shunt coupling occurs between the tubular sleeve and the bending beam and the force input element and the force output element, - the tubular sleeve is flexurally rigid and the force input element and the force output element are rotationally symmetric and rounded in shape in portions along the longitudinal axis, - the flexurally soft areas of the ring elements (5, 6) are embodied as concentrically encircling thin areas, - an overload protection means is provided inside the bending beam, said overload protection means including an axial overload beam with a stop head in a recess of the middle part of the bending beam, said stop head projecting into an extended recess portion of one end of the bending beam, and - the extended recess portion is provided with at least one bore, wherein one portion of the cross-section of the bore extends in the end of the bending beam and another portion of the cross-section extends in the stop head, and into which bore an alignment pin which leaves a defined gap to the end of the bending beam is fixed.