business guidance

We provide business guidance on compliance with trading standards legislation, on a range of topics from keeping animals to labelling of foods and selling fireworks.

After receiving feedback on our leaflets, we have decided to no longer host the full content on this site; instead we have provided a summary. This is to deliberately profile your local trading standards service and the customised services they provide. You can find your local trading standards service through our postcode search.

Many local authorities help businesses by running the Home Authority Scheme where they can advise you on compliance with the law and dealing with other local authorities that want to know about your business.

We keep these pages regularly updated to reflect changes in legislation. If you feel that there are topics not covered please let us know as we are always looking to add to and improve how the Institute and trading standards can help businesses to remain legal at all times.