Product Safety

Trading Standards (TS) support the marketplace by continuously monitoring new products that come to be sold in the UK and investigating products that are deemed unsafe. Unsafe products can be anything that doesn’t follow the legislative standards and/or products that could cause injury to a consumer. We receive a large …

A Ferndown car trader has been fined after he was found guilty of advertising a clocked car and obstructing trading standards officers who visited his premises to investigate. Abdul El Fortia (aged 33) of Malmesbury Court, Malmesbury Road, Bournemouth was sentenced at Poole Magistrates’ Court on 23 December 2021 for …

A Gloucester man was thwarted in his bid to sell nearly 1,000 counterfeit car badges by Gloucestershire trading standards officers. Cezary Sobieszuk, aged 39, of Sapperton Road, appeared before Cirencester Magistrates’ Court on Thursday 13 May 2021 following a trading standards investigation. He pleaded guilty to four offences, one relating …

A trading standards investigation into second-hand car sales across the South West has uncovered traders selling faulty and unsafe used cars that could cause an accident or lead to high repair costs. Of the 129 vehicles being sold that were assessed as part of the investigation, one in every three …

Gloucestershire Trading Standards Service has been carrying out enforcement activity following reports of counterfeit clothing being sold at markets and through social media sites in Gloucester. Officers seized counterfeit items of clothing, including Burberry and Adidas children’s clothing, from a Gloucester car boot sale this week. The counterfeits had an …

Itchy skin, vomiting, and rashes are some of the gifts small children could unwrap this Christmas, warns a local safety group. And this is in addition to the range of hazards that appear around the home with button batteries from toys, hot ovens on all day, and boiling pots and …