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Posted: 23 April 2025
UPDATES: A local initiative shines a spotlight on toy safety, raising awareness of potential hazards and encouraging retailers and consumers to prioritise compliance and child safety.
Posted: 06 March 2025
UPDATES: Hundreds of unsafe imported leaf blowers and glue guns have been seized at the Port of Felixstowe, highlighting the continuing challenge of preventing dangerous products from reaching UK consumers.
Posted: 06 March 2025
UPDATES: Test purchasing has exposed widespread failures by retailers to prevent underage sales of corrosive products, raising concerns about compliance with legislation designed to tackle knife crime and public safety.
Posted: 03 March 2025
UPDATES: Trading Standards officers have seized jewellery containing dangerously high levels of toxic metals at Stansted Airport, underlining the risks posed by unsafe imported consumer products.
Posted: 24 January 2025
UPDATES: A trader who imported almost 1,000 non-compliant and unsafe e-scooters and e-bikes has been successfully prosecuted by Islington Council following a Trading Standards investigation. Sardar Rassa, who traded.
Posted: 13 January 2025
ANALYSIS: A family home destroyed in seconds, lives lost, and a father left to plead for change - all because of overheating e-bike and e-scooter batteries. With fires on the rise, experts are calling for urgent regulation, safer design, and stricter online sales rules. Read how one tragedy is sparking a fight to protect UK households from this hidden danger ...
Posted: 13 January 2025
ANALYSIS: E-bike and e-scooter battery fires have turned a popular form of transport into an urgent product safety challenge. From online marketplaces and conversion kits to gaps in regulation and enforcement, campaigners, fire chiefs and Trading Standards are pressing for stronger rules before more families suffer devastating losses.
Posted: 13 January 2025
ANALYSIS: Labour’s legislative programme promises major changes for product safety, online markets, tobacco and vapes, renting and housebuilding. For Trading Standards, the question is not whether these reforms matter, but whether already stretched services will receive the powers, clarity and funding needed to enforce them effectively.
Posted: 09 January 2025
UPDATES: OPSS’s first Horizon Scan places jetpacks and human implant technology among the emerging developments with the greatest potential consumer risk. The report also highlights online marketplaces, social commerce and fast-changing supply chains as areas where regulation and market surveillance will need to keep pace.
Posted: 06 January 2025
UPDATES: Trading Standards officers have intercepted unsafe imported goods before they reached consumers, underlining the importance of border enforcement in preventing hazardous products entering the UK market.
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