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Consumer advice - If you are a consumer, visit out consumer advice and protection pages for guidance on your rights when you buy goods or services.
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Animal by-products disposal, animal feed and feed hygiene and animal health - Find out about animal feed and feed hygiene, animal health legislation, or the legal disposal routes of animal by-products.
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Chemicals, petrol and explosives - Chemicals must be correctly labelled and packaged. There are strict rules on the storage and handling of explosives, petroleum and poisons. Find out more.
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Consumer credit - If your business offers goods or services on credit or lend money to consumers or act as pawnbroker, you must be licensed. Find out more.
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Counterfeiting - Find out about what counterfeiting is, and how to avoid it in your business.
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Food standards - You must make sure that the foods you supply are correctly and accurately labelled, that it contains legal ingredients and that any claims made are not false or misleading. Find out more.
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Packing goods by weight or volume - Find out about packer’s duties, and the laws covering packing goods by weight or volume.
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Poisons - Find out what are legally classed as poisons or how to apply for a licence if you sell poisons.
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Product safety - All goods whether they are new or second hand, supplied or hired must be safe by law. Find out more.
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Underage sales - Find out the age restrictions set for certain products for sale or about our test purchases for illegal sales.
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Unfair trading practices and pricing practices - If you are a business, you have a duty to not trade unfairly with consumers. Find out about the different laws covering the offering and supply of goods and services.
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Unroadworthy vehicles - If you are a motor dealer or you repair vehicles, you must not supply vehicles to the public for use on the road which are in an unsafe condition. Find out how to be legally compliant.
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Weights and measures and public weighbridges - Find out about your legal obligations if you operate a weighbridge, advice about selling goods by weight or volume, or how to request testing for your weighing and measuring equipment.
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Inspections and enforcements - Find out what happens in a trading standards inspection or what enforcement action we may take if a business breaks the law.
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