Trading Standards for businesses

Do you need specialist business advice and help interpreting and complying with trading standards legislation?

Yes - then let us help!  We enforce over 60 acts of Parliament and over 1000 UK and European Regulations covering many areas of business including:

• Age Restricted Sales
• Animal Health and Welfare
• Consumer Credit
• Consumer Safety
• Estate Agency and Property Misdescriptions
• Fair Trading
• Food (Composition & Labelling)
• Hallmarking
• Petroleum and Explosives
• Pricing
• Road Traffic
• Trade Descriptions
• Trade Marks
• Weights and Measures

Trading standards officers undertake regular inspections, investigations, test purchases, surveys, verifications and sampling to ensure compliance with trading standards legislation. Where necessary, serious contraventions are reported, which can result in legal action being taken by the service against the trader/individual.

We also act as Home Authority for large businesses that have their base in Nottinghamshire, offering advice and guidance and serving as a point of contact for trading standards officers in other areas of the country.

For further information and guidance please look at the business information sheets which offer guidance on many areas of trading standards legislation or contact us. For further information on advice to consumers visit our Consumer Direct section.