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Welcome to CTSI's News Room. Here, you can browse through our latest consumer protection and trading standards news reports (below), or check out our archive of news articles from previous years.
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Warning over fake chargers and second-hand electrics
Posted: 02/12/16
People are being urged to think twice when they buy second-hand electrical goods or cheap and often counterfeit chargers after investigators found that many of them are unsafe.
Get 'switched on' to your rights, urges consumer advice body UK ECC in National Consumer Week
Posted: 30/11/16
Consumer advice organisation the UK European Consumer Centre is advising UK consumers to be 'switched on' to their rights when shopping for electrical goods online within Europe.
Shoppers stuck with faulty electrical items urged to use their consumer rights
Posted: 28/11/16
2 in 3 people had a problem with faulty electrical goods in the last 2 years.
CTSI launches new website
Posted: 21/11/16
The Chartered Trading Standards Institute has today launched its new website. The address is still the same but we have endeavoured to refresh the content, style and functionality to make it easier for visitors coming to the site to understand who we are and what we do.
National tobacco survey published today
Posted: 18/11/16
NICOTINE inhaling products like e-cigarettes and vaping fluids have for the first time been included in the annual National Tobacco Control Survey report, published today.
