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What is the Trading Standards Service?

Worcestershire Trading Standards Service is a division of Worcestershire County Council's Environmental Services Directorate.

We are responsible for enforcing legislation that covers the safety of products for the consumer market, weights and measures, fair trading and food. We are also involved in maintaining standards of animal welfare for livestock and for enforcing measures to prevent the spread of animal disease in farm animals.

If you are a consumer, we can advise you how to go about dealing with a complaint for yourself and how to take a small claim in the County Court.

If you are a business, we can give advice and information to help ensure you comply with consumer legislation. We are also able to check on weighing and measuring equipment and offer a weight adjustment service.

In order to assist both consumers and businesses, we have developed a range of leaflets which can be downloaded from this website (look for links followed by TS leaflet and its number eg.TS leaflet 9004, etc).

For general consumer advice please contact:

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Telephone: 08454 04 05 06

E-mail:    http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/contact#sendmail

Website: http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/

About:    Consumer Direct

(Consumer Direct is open for telephone calls: Mon to Fri: 8am-6.30pm, Sat: 9am-1pm excluding Bank/Public Holidays)

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This page was last reviewed 11 March 2010 at 11:52 by pawhite.
The page is next due for review 27 September 2010.

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