Trading Standards

  • Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards

     1. The number of Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) breaches identified in residential properties in your council area since the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards  (MEES) was established in 2015 and first implemented in April 2018. We have not been able to … Continue reading →

  • Food Labelling Misinformation

    1. How many complaints have you received from 2020-2023 regarding misdescribed food or missing information? 2. Please break these down by health claims, ingredients, weights, descriptions and allergens 3.  How many of these claims were linked to products marked as … Continue reading →

  • Vapes

    I am writing to you under the FOI act 2000 to request the following in relation to your trading standards department 1) How much money has been spent in the last three calendar years (2020, 2021,2022,2023 so far, please state … Continue reading →

  • Spiking

    1. Does Devon County Council (DCC) explicitly reference spiking prevention in the statement of licensing policy? 2. Does DCC run a communications campaign to clearly demonstrate a zero-tolerance approach to spiking? 3. Which partnership schemes are training packages are referenced … Continue reading →

  • Communication with Tobacco Industry

    Please provide a list of any and all contact your organisation and/or staff have had with British American Tobacco, Imperial Brands, Japan Tobacco International, Philip Morris International, as well as any other domestic or transnational tobacco companies or anyone representing … Continue reading →

  • Elf Bars

    Many Elf Bars have recently been removed from retailers as they were found to contain almost double the legal nicotine limits for the UK. A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care, in light of this, has said … Continue reading →

  • Cost of disposal of illegal vapes

    Please could you provide me with: – The total number or weight of illegal disposable vapes seized by the council over the past three years, broken down by year. Mar 2020-Feb 2021=0 Mar 2021-Feb 2022=0 Mar 2022-Feb 2023=3470 – Details … Continue reading →

  • Vaping devices to under 18s

    I am inquiring into how many retailers/ shops you have found in Somerset that have been caught selling vaping devices to those under the age of 18 between 2017 – 2022, and how many of these retailers have been prosecuted … Continue reading →