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Why Trading Standards shares priorities and challenges with many businesses

Richard Young

Posted 05 July 2023 | JoTS Online


Content Tags:  Opinion|Retail|National


OPINION: “I would never let my children work in Trading Standards.” That was what an experienced Trading Standards Officer told me during my first week in the profession back in 2008. I was attending a South...

“I would never let my children work in Trading Standards.” That was what an experienced Trading Standards Officer told me during my first week in the profession back in 2008. I was attending a South London product safety meeting and the officer mistook me for someone on work experience, and they hadn’t clocked on that I was actually a new Trading Standards Officer.

Having worked in consum...

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