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Posted: 06 March 2025
SPONSORED: Entries are now open for the 2025 Touchstone Award, celebrating innovative Trading Standards work that promotes the importance of hallmarking and consumer protection across the UK.
Posted: 12 August 2024
SPONSORED: The British Hallmarking Council is inviting entries for the 2024 HALO Award, recognising online jewellers who help consumers understand hallmarks and avoid misleading descriptions when buying precious-metal jewellery.
Posted: 08 July 2024
SPONSORED: As illicit and non-compliant vapes place growing pressure on enforcement teams, Inter Scientific explains how laboratory expertise and a free compliance database are helping Trading Standards identify products, support investigations and protect consumers.
Posted: 17 January 2024
SPONSORED: The British Hallmarking Council's Touchstone Awards recognise outstanding Trading Standards work, celebrating innovative enforcement and partnership initiatives that deliver real consumer protection.
Posted: 14 December 2023
SPONSORED: With Trading Standards teams under sustained financial pressure, this opinion piece examines how industry partnerships, intellectual property owners and collaborative enforcement can help fill resource gaps while supporting action against organised counterfeit crime.
Posted: 09 May 2022
SPONSORED: Consumer protection applies as much to diamonds as to everyday essentials. This piece argues that product confidence, accurate descriptions and effective enforcement remain vital even in markets often seen as luxury purchases.
Posted: 07 February 2022
SPONSORED: The IPO’s five-year counter-infringement strategy sets out a more coordinated approach to IP crime, built around partnership, leadership, education and a 4Ps framework linking Trading Standards, Border Force, police, industry and government.
Posted: 26 May 2021
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Posted: 11 January 2021
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Posted: 06 January 2020
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Posted: 22 November 2019
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Posted: 05 November 2019
SPONSORED: Working from home demands more than a laptop on the kitchen table. Practical advice explains how to create a safe, productive workspace that supports wellbeing and effective working.
Posted: 31 October 2019
SPONSORED: Changing consumer expectations and wider social trends continue to reshape business strategy, with several emerging practices expected to remain important well beyond 2020.
Posted: 11 October 2019
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Posted: 01 July 2019
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Posted: 13 March 2019
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Posted: 04 January 2019
SPONSORED: The 2019 Touchstone Award is open for entries, inviting recognition for work that demonstrates the value, impact and public benefit of trading standards in practice.
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