Trading Standards

New guide to improve consumer product safety recalls

It was announced in January 2018 that the Government was strengthening the UK's product safety regime by creating a new body in the wake of recent warnings. The newly formed Office for Product Safety and Standards will manage responses to large scale product recalls and identify risks to consumers.

Fighting Food Fraud

The National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) describes food fraud as 'a dishonest act or omission, relating to the production or supply of food, which is intended for personal gain or to cause loss to another party'.

London cosmetic shops fined £168,000 in 2016 for selling illegal cosmetics

London Trading Standards have published figures which show that 15 cosmetic companies across the capital were fined a total of £168,579 in 2016 for dealing in unsafe cosmetic products.