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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.

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