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New report shows fewer retailers sell e-cigs to children
Posted: 21/01/2017
Retailers that failed a national test purchase operation and sold nicotine inhaling products to children and young people are now fully compliant with the law, a new report has found.
Register My Appliance Day
Posted: 19/01/2017
Today (the 19听of January), is Register My Appliance Day, the domestic appliance industry is urging the public to take a few minutes to register the millions of white goods that they rely on every day, have never registered, and completely forget they own.
Winter tyres: a requirement throughout Europe?
Posted: 17/01/2017
Are you venturing out on the road in the freezing conditions sweeping across Europe now? Then it's time to read a Winter Tyres report just published by the European Consumer Centre Network on mandatory equipment for travel this winter in Europe, plus Iceland and Norway.
London cosmetic shops fined 拢168,000 for selling illegal cosmetics
Posted: 12/01/2017
Figures published by London Trading Standards this week showed that 15 cosmetic businesses across the capital were fined a total of 拢168,579 in 2016 for dealing in unsafe cosmetic products.
Illegal cigarettes found by sniffer dogs costs East London business 拢13,000
Posted: 11/01/2017
London Trading Standards deployment of tobacco sniffer dogs to combat the sale of illegal tobacco yielded another success this month.
