LoginTS services stop 20m illegal products
Local trading standards have removed 20 million dangerous goods from sale in 2018/19
Posted 08 November 2019 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Inside Trading Standards|National
UPDATES: A new report quantifies the economic and social value delivered by local trading standards services, revealing the scale of illegal products removed from the marketplace and the wider benefits of enforcement.
Over 20 million illegal products including more than 15 million potentially dangerous cigarettes have been detained by local trading standards services in the last year, a new report from the Association of Chief Trading Standards Officers has revealed.
The findings are announced in 'The Value of Trading Standards Report', which for the first time calculates the impact and value d...
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