Shropshire Trading Standards

Contacting us
Why we are here
Enquiries, advice and information
Weights and Measures - including, public weighbridges and hiring weights
Food - Quality Standards
Feedingstuffs - Quality Standards - animal feedingstuffs and fertilisers
Safety - including, age restricted products, fireworks, petroleum, poisons and electric blankets
Fair Trading - including, scams and doorstep selling
Animal Health - including licensing, disease outbreak information and feed Hygiene Regulations
Weight Restrictions - map of weight restrictions in Shrewsbury
Quality of Service - including our Service Plan, key initiatives and surveys of how we are performing
A Career in Trading Standards - information from the Trading Standards Institute
Terms and Conditions

Contacting Us

Consumers

Business

Animal Health and Welfare

Emergency out of hours

Why We Are Here

This Service aims to:

Protect the community from illegal or unfair trading practices

Protect the local economy, by ensuring Shropshire's traders do not suffer from unfair competition

Forge close links with the business community and wherever possible ease the legislative burden

Protect the local economy by ensuring the highest level of animal health and welfare

We are responsible for around 70 Acts of Parliament and 900 Regulations, supported by 50 Codes of Practice and thousands of standards.

We make visits to manufactures, distributors, retailers and service providers using risk assessment criteria to target our activities. Products and Services are sampled and tested to quality and safety standards.

To achieve these aims we operate in the following core areas of work. Detailed information on how this Service performs in all these areas can be found in our Quality of Service section.

Last reviewed September 2008

Shropshire County Council Trading Standards Service
Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY2 6ND