BUSINESS ADVICE - INCLUDING ANIMAL HEALTH

• Contact our business advice and animal health teams
  
  
• Guidance notes and leaflets - go to our self-help business and animal health and welfare advice sheets, which you can download and print.
  
  
• Animal health and welfare advice - information on disease outbreaks, farm inspections, livestock markets, animal movement licensing,
  feed hygiene regulations.
  
  
• Trader Register - how to include your business on the scheme. The Trader Register is for home improvement businesses who have signed up to a code of practice which includes offering a commitment to fair and honest trading practices. Consumers then use a website to locate a business.
  
  
• Business information newsletter - The latest issue focuses on health issues, in particular the introduction of the smoking ban, which will affect almost all businesses, and sales of age-restricted products such as alcohol and tobacco.
  
  
• Scams and Rip Offs  - every day, businesses are offered a chance to transfer large sums of money using their bank account or unnecessarily register under Data Protection Legislation. Whilst some of this mail may be genuine, much of it is a dishonest attempt to trap you into parting with your money.
  
  
• Business Link West Midlands - provides impartial and expert information, support and advice needed to help businesses develop and make them more successful. Can help you to improve your business performance, making it easier to move your business forward, no matter what stage your business is at.
  
  
• Useful contacts and links such as:
  - Local Business Organisations
  - Other Government Departments and Agencies - including DTI, DEFRA
  
  
• How to stop unwanted sales -
  • Telephone calls
  • Faxes
  • Mail
    
    
• New Businesses - clear yourself for takeoff
  
  
• Our Enforcement Policy
  
  
• Home Authority Principle

• Click here to go to our self-help advice sheets

All leaflets are prepared for your guidance. They are not authoritative documents on the law. In the interests of brevity, some details may have been omitted but further information and advice can be obtained by contacting us.

Business Information Newsletter

In conjunction with other Midland Trading Standards Services, we produce a newsletter for businesses in the Midlands. To view one or more of these files you will require Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is free for download from the Adobe website.

July 08 - Home improvment special - good trader schemes, rogue traders and misleading adverts.

June 08 - Latest business news including items on changes to unfair trading law, age restriced sales and is the customer right.

December 07 - This issue focuses on the motor trade.

June 07 - This issue focuses on health issues, in particular the introduction of the smoking ban, which will affect almost all businesses, and sales of age-restricted products such as alcohol and tobacco. There is also valuable advice on current scams and an update on the law on novelty lighters.

Feb 07 - This issue focuses on food labelling and allergy advice.

Page last reviewed July 2008

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