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LBBD takes on underage sales


London Borough of Barking & Dagenham TS carried out a series of compliance checks

Richard Young

Posted 16 January 2023 | JoTS Online


Content Tags:  Analysis|Retail|London


ANALYSIS: Barking and Dagenham Trading Standards explains its work tackling underage sales, using test purchasing and enforcement to reduce young people's access to knives, tobacco, alcohol and vapes.

Officers from the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham (LBBD) Trading Standards carried out a series of underage sales compliance checks in 2022 as part of the service’s continuing work to safeguard young people from potentially harmful products including knives, alcohol, tobacco and vapes.

Nazir Ali, Trading Standards Team Manager at LBBD, explained: “A knife in the wrong hands c...

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