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Heart of the South West Trading Standards has seized £166,000 worth of illegal products
Posted 21 March 2024 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Vapes|South West
UPDATES: A major enforcement operation in south Devon removed illicit tobacco and illegal vapes from circulation, highlighting the continuing partnership work and intelligence-led action being taken to disrupt the illegal market and protect consumers.
Heart of the South West Trading Standards has made one of its biggest ever seizures of illegal tobacco products and vapes, removing more than £166,000 worth of illicit products from sale.
Officers from Heart of the South West Trading Standards, accompanied by tobacco detection dogs and Devon & Cornwall Police, found more than 18,000 counterfeit and non-duty paid cigarettes an...
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