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Posted: 15 January 2025
ANALYSIS: Test purchasing and intelligence-led enforcement continue to expose weaknesses in age-restricted knife sales. The latest activity highlights both progress made and the challenges that remain.
Posted: 05 November 2024
UPDATES: Barking and Dagenham officers found failures in retailer controls on high-strength corrosive products, using test purchases to reinforce age restrictions, EPP licence requirements and the serious consequences of non-compliance.
Posted: 25 April 2024
UPDATES: CTSI has launched a campaign warning of the dangers posed by illegal cosmetic products including skin lightening creams, teeth whitening kit.
Posted: 30 October 2023
UPDATES: Trading Standards officers stepped up Halloween safety checks as cost-of-living pressures increased demand for cheaper costumes and seasonal goods, targeting unsafe products before they reached families and helping shoppers celebrate safely.
Posted: 05 October 2023
UPDATES: CTSI has welcomed Government plans to create a smoke-free generation by progressively raising the legal age for tobacco sales, alongside proposed measures to reduce children's access to and attraction towards vapes.
Posted: 04 July 2023
ANALYSIS: Back in the mid-80s there was a band that went by the name Color Me Badd. Whilst I thought it was an unusual name for a pop group, the name stuck with me as I...
Posted: 09 March 2023
UPDATES: More than 300 unsafe electrical heaters destined for online sale were intercepted at Felixstowe after inspectors identified serious electrocution risks, preventing potentially dangerous products from reaching consumers.
Posted: 08 February 2023
UPDATES: A business owner who failed to take measures to protect the public during a firework display has been...
Posted: 09 January 2023
UPDATES: Consumers are being warned to stay alert to New Year health and wellbeing scams as fraudsters exploit seasonal resolutions with misleading products and false claims.
Posted: 05 January 2023
UPDATES: A leading figure in product safety has been recognised in the New Year Honours for decades of work supporting businesses, regulators and consumer protection.
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