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Posted: 07 January 2025
UPDATES: Rotherham Trading Standards and local police removed £563,000 worth of counterfeit vapes from shops during 2024, with some products found to contain harmful contaminants. The figures show the scale of illicit vape enforcement ahead of the disposable vapes ban coming into force in June 2025.
Posted: 06 December 2024
UPDATES: A retailer has been fined after selling a vape to an underage customer, reinforcing the importance of age-restricted sales enforcement and retailer compliance.
Posted: 27 November 2024
UPDATES: New National Trading Standards figures show more than 1.19 million illegal vapes and 19 million illicit cigarettes were seized in England in 2023/24, underlining the scale of enforcement pressure on unsafe products and underage sales.
Posted: 30 October 2024
UPDATES: A Gloucester shop owner has been ordered to pay more than £6,000 after repeated Trading Standards visits uncovered large quantities of illegal oversized disposable vapes at his shop and in his car.
Posted: 21 October 2024
UPDATES: Enforcement action against two Newark shops resulted in the seizure of more than 1,400 illegal vapes, underlining continued efforts to tackle illicit products.
Posted: 14 October 2024
UPDATES: A Taunton shop owner has been ordered to pay more than £2,300 after a disposable vape was sold to an under-18 volunteer during a Trading Standards test purchase, underlining the need for staff training and robust age-verification procedures.
Posted: 26 September 2024
UPDATES: Heart of the South West Trading Standards (HotSW TS) is reminding shopkeepers to ask their customers for ID following the prosecution of a trader who sold vapes to an under-18-year-old. At Newton Abbey Magistrates Court on 23 September Andrew Hawkins...
Posted: 16 August 2024
UPDATES: The Heart of the South West Trading Standards Service is reminding local retailers to ask for age...
Posted: 12 August 2024
UPDATES: Shropshire Council Trading Standards has prosecuted two local businesses for illegal sales of vapes, resulting in convictions...
Posted: 25 July 2024
UPDATES: Trading Standards officers, police and a specialist detection dog have visited secondary schools in Redcar and Cleveland to warn pupils about illicit vapes, including devices found to contain synthetic drugs, while reinforcing age-restriction laws and safe disposal.
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