Illicit vapes 'new battleground'
Illicit vapes are the most common type of product seized by Lincolnshire TS
Posted 24 March 2023 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Crime|East of England
UPDATES: Lincolnshire Trading Standards says illicit vapes have become a new enforcement battleground, with seizure figures showing how quickly non-compliant products have moved to the centre of local product safety work.
Illegal vapes have become the ‘new battleground’ for Lincolnshire Trading Standards, comprising the vast majority of unsafe products the service removed from the market last year, according to a new report.
In its report to Lincolnshire Council’s Public Protection and Communities Scrutiny Committee, the service reveals that of the 5,417 unsafe products it removed from the market between A...
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