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Advice to business

Trading Standards can provide advice on a variety of trading standards matters to businesses based in Peterborough. Further information on some of the areas covered by trading standards can be found elsewhere on the trading standards section of this website

For comprehensive business advice packs that are tailored to your business and the products and/or services you offer, please visit Everything Regulation When It Is Needed (ERWIN). ERWIN is a national one-stop web site for advice for retail based businesses providing guidance on all aspects of Trading Standards, Environmental Health, Licensing and Fire Safety in an easy to interpret, simplified and prioritised format. For further information please contact the Trading Standards team.

Useful links

The following external websites provide further business advice.

• Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
• Local Better Regulation Office
• The Office of Fair Trading
• The Assay Office
• The Environment Agency
• Sale Of Goods Act Hub

Food and Animal Health

• Defra
• Food Standards Agency
• European Food Safety Authority

Product Safety

• Product Recalls List
• Health and Safety Executive
• Safety Guidance from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
• British Toy and Hobby Association

Weights and Measures

• National Measurement Office