Food Standards
Detailed questions and answers relating to interpretation of specific food labelling law requirements. General guidance on product categories eg: labelling of sandwiches. Details of recommended enforcement approaches eg: GM testing of foods, sampling techniques.

Consumer Credit
Guidance on the interpretation of specific consumer credit law requirements. Details of recommended enforcement approaches.

Fair Trading
Guidance on the interpretation of specific fair trading requirements including pricing legislation, trade descriptions, estate agency, packaged travel, hallmarking, counterfeiting. Information on partnership working and initiatives such as good trader schemes, ombudsman schemes. Details of proposed and actual UK and European legislative changes. Details of recommended enforcement approaches. e-commerce. Stop now orders. Distance selling rules. Unfair contract terms.

Animal Health and Welfare
Guidance based on national and EU disease control and welfare legislation. Information on operational and contingency planning.

Food Hygiene/Safety
Advice on a range of queries relating to the application of the Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) Regulations 1995 including issues such as the service of rare beef, the use of raw eggs and local and port health issues concerning dried spices and salmonella contamination. Guidance and aide memoire inspection advice on certain product specific EU legislation.

Environmental
General guidance on packaging and labeling of consumer goods, specific topics include legislation on Packaging (Essential Requirements) Directive, energy efficiency and waste electrical products. Advice and information on green claims.

Metrology
Areas of metrology providing guidance on specific metrology law requirements and associated documents from other agencies, Government Departments and trade organisations. Matters range from WELMEC, NWML, self-verification, Measuring Instruments Directive, froth on beer, non-automatic weighing instruments and fees. Includes legal opinions regarding metrication, case details and judgments, concordat advice and price marking/metrication guidance. Road Traffic documents dealing with such issues as dynamic weighers, authorised lorry weights and prosecution criteria.

Product Safety
Guidance and advice on legal requirements of product safety, European health and safety Directives and legislation. Advice on chemicals and dangerous substances law in the UK. Views from LACORS advisers and technical experts on product safety matters.

Petroleum and Explosives
Guidance on interpretation of the petroleum legislation. Advice on fireworks and explosives storage, registration, sales and licensing of explosives. Copies of joint industry / enforcement advice.

Under Age Sales/Tobacco
Guidance on policies relating to under age sales, age restricted goods legislation and details of protocols on under age sales. Information on tobacco advertising and promotion legislation and healthier living initiatives.

Law and Evidence
Advice, guidance and interpretation on areas of criminal and civil legislation and case law. Reviewing enforcement and evidential issues including legislation and codes of practice on the Human Rights Act 1998, Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.

Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs
Guidance on the application of existing and new controls, good compliance practice and local authority resources. Advice on the use of such legislation in the farm to fork food environment.

Strategic and Policy
Performance Management and Best Value.
Enforcement Concordat Information and Guidance.
Regulatory Protocols.
Best Practice.
Home Authority Principle.

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