Business Advice

We provide advice to businesses to help them comply with the law.

• New Businesses - Start Up Advice
• Home Authority Principle
• Ask CEdRIC
• Guidance notes and leaflets
• Local Business Partnership
• Local Business Advice
• Other useful contacts

Check News & Safety Warnings for updates.

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Home Authority Principle

We adhere to national guidelines (known as the Home Authority Principle) which require us to place special emphasis on companies resident in Devon.

• Home Authority Principle

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Ask CEdRIC

Ask CEdRIC (Consumer Education Resource and Information Centre) is a national one-stop website for all Trading Standards business related information. Developed by Cambridgeshire County Council with support from the DTI, business information and education materials on all aspects of Trading Standards issues can be found here. In addition there are links to a number of relevant resources on the web to help you find the information you need.

• Ask CEdRIC

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Guidance notes and leaflets

Either go to listing

• Our self-help advice sheets
• Guidance notes and leaflets you can order from us

Or search the advice sheets and leaflet titles

This search will return all pages which match any of your selected words. Searching for 'food health' will find pages which include the words 'food' OR 'health' but will not find part words, for example, a page containing the word 'heal'. The search is not case sensitive.