General advice for businesses
Whatever your business, you need to know about Trading Standards' advice and regulations.
Guidance leaflets
Trading Standards Central maintains a regularly updated Guidance Leaflet Listing to help you trade legally. These cover a variety of topics including:
- farmed animal health and welfare
- consumers' and buyers' rights (including selling methods)
- fair trading (including pricing)
- food
- product safety
- weights and measures.
Visit the Trading Standards Central website.
Product warnings and recalls
Companies may recall products or issue safety warnings if they feel that the public are at risk. The most recent product recalls are published on the Trading Standards Central website.
Food hazard warnings
The Food Standards Agency issues warnings about the latest problems associated with food on their website Food Alerts page.
Business Support Network
Businesses can sign-up for free email alerts about:
- changes to trading law
- the latest scams affecting businesses in East Sussex
- council press releases about Trading Standards news.
Find out more about the Business Support Network.
