North Lincolnshire Council's Trading Standards provides services in the following areas:
Fair trading
- False and misleading descriptions about goods and services.
- False and misleading descriptions about houses and properties.
- Preventing the supply of unroadworthy vehicles.
- Through partnership work, raising levels of satisfaction with motor traders - Motor Trade Partnership.
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Home Services Directory - a list of vetted tradespeople who can do work in your home.
- Pricing of goods and misleading prices and offers.
- Consumer credit.
- Protecting consumers and industry from counterfeit products.
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Assisting consumers in resolving their problems.
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Unwanted doorstep callers/traders
Safety
- Ensuring all consumer goods are safe.
- Ensuring second hand goods are safe.
- Regulating packaging on goods.
- Promoting re-use or recycling of packaging.
- Sampling and testing of goods.
- Preventing underage sales.
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Overloaded goods vehicles.
- Guidance to manufacturers and retailers.
- Electrical Safety Test Unit (Internal). We offer free annual electric blanket checks.
- Ensure the safe storage of petroleum spirit.
- Inspect premises storing explosives and test as appropriate.
- Inspect premises storing poisons.
Food and animal health
- Food standards inspections.
- Advice to traders on food labelling requirements.
- Sampling of foods to ensure compliance with compositional standards.
- Monitor use by dates on food.
- Carry out food surveys for national and regional clients.
- Visit retailers and manufacturers to ensure they comply with food legislation.
- Health and welfare of farm animals.
- Prevention of animal diseases.
- Rabies prevention.
- Advice and analysing of animal feeds and agricultural fertilisers.
Metrology (weights and measures)
- Inspect and test weighing and measuring equipment used in business.
- Inspect and test output from local manufactures.
- Advise businesses on all aspects of weights and measures laws.
- In collaboration with the Humber Authorities Calibration Service, provide and maintain local standards of weights and measures.
- Retail and wholesale food inspections.
We can give expert advice, free of charge, to consumers and businesses in North Lincolnshire on all aspects of trading standards law.
