Trade Advice Category

• Plastic straws, cotton buds and stirrers
• Credit and other financial matters
• Video recordings and games for sale and hire
• Membership logos and claims of approval
• Single-use carrier bags
• Business scams
• The composition and use of packaging
• Aerosol spray paints
• Cigarette lighter refills
• Payment surcharges
• One-day and occasional sales
• Energy Performance Certificates
• Crossbows, air weapons and imitation firearms
• Goods in rented accommodation
• Consumer protection from unfair trading
• Herbal medicine and health food shops
• Trading standards: powers, enforcement and penalties
• Sunbeds
• The retail sale of pet food
• Microbeads
• Car boot sales
• Tobacco and nicotine inhaling products
• Energy rating information
• Hallmarking
• Novel foods (including CBD and hemp)
• Tobacco etc: packaging, labelling and advertising
• Energy efficiency of rented property: domestic
• Energy efficiency of rented property: non-domestic
• Company and business names
• Botox and cosmetic fillers
• Fireworks
• Primary Authority
• Intellectual property
• Environmental ('green') claims
• Alcohol
• Knives, other bladed items and corrosive substances

Information provided by the Chartered Trading Standard Institute. The county council is not responsible for this information.