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Posted: 11 August 2023
UPDATES: An intelligence-led operation by Islington Trading Standards resulted in fines after a shop sold a knife to a 14-year-old and was found stocking hundreds of illegal tobacco products during follow-up inspections.
Posted: 21 July 2023
UPDATES: CTSI has welcomed the CMA’s unit pricing review, which calls for clearer, more consistent and more prominent pricing rules across grocery and variety retail. The Institute says reform is needed, but warns that enforcement depends on properly resourced Trading Standards services.
Posted: 05 July 2023
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...
Posted: 03 July 2023
UPDATES: Tower Hamlets Trading Standards has been clamping down on law-breaking businesses in the London borough, with recent successful prosecutions of a shop which sold alcohol to a minor and another business which sold dangerous cosmetics....
Posted: 08 June 2023
UPDATES: More than £130,000 worth of illicit tobacco seized through Operation CeCe has been destroyed, highlighting the impact of coordinated enforcement against smuggling, counterfeit products and the criminal networks behind them.
Posted: 31 May 2023
UPDATES: A series of licence suspensions across West Sussex highlights the consequences for retailers caught selling alcohol to children, as Trading Standards reinforces a zero-tolerance approach to underage sales.
Posted: 31 May 2023
UPDATES: Worcestershire Trading Standards has seized thousands of illicit cigarettes, illegal tobacco and non-compliant vapes during targeted operations, highlighting the continuing fight against counterfeit products and unlawful nicotine sales.
Posted: 31 May 2023
UPDATES: Lancashire Trading Standards is intensifying action against retailers selling counterfeit tobacco, smuggled goods and age-restricted products to children, combining successful prosecutions with a wider crackdown on persistent offenders.
Posted: 22 May 2023
UPDATES: A retailer has been fined after selling a vape to an underage test purchaser, reinforcing the importance of age verification and ongoing enforcement against youth vaping.
Posted: 16 May 2023
UPDATES: A shopkeeper has been prosecuted for repeated underage sales, underlining Trading Standards' continued use of test purchasing to protect young consumers.
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