Trading standards advice
General advice that is relevant to all businesses. This includes details of our Buy with Confidence scheme, advice on stopping counterfeiting and our Business Support Pack full of useful guidance and licensing advice.
The Buy With Confidence scheme is an initiative by the Trading Standards Service in West Sussex, in conjunction with other services in the South East to help businesses comply with the law, while improving consumer protection through a partnership approach.
Food safety advice for businesses and links to district and borough councils.
We check and verify weighing and measuring equipment from weighbridges to shop scales, from measures in pubs to petrol pumps. We also inspect and test goods sold by weight and measure, as well as checking the quantity of goods delivered to businesses. Find out more.
Self-help advice sheets from Trading Standards are available on a wide variety of subjects including animal health and welfare, consumer's rights, fair trading, food, safety and weights and measures.
The guidance sheets in this section are provided by West Sussex Trading Standards to compliment the self help advice sheets provided nationally.
Find out how to contact West Sussex Trading Standards, for advice on purchases, consumer issues, to make a complaint or to speak to a trained consumer adviser.
Online form to allow details of people suspected of trading in counterfeit goods to be provided anonymously to Trading Standards.
Information on the new partnership between Trading Standards and the South East Illegal Money Lending Team intended to track down and prosecuting rogue moneylenders.
An explanation of the Trading Standards Enforcement Policy with links to the policy and policy options.