Shops in Carlisle and Workington have been praised following a test purchasing operation organised by Cumberland Council. Council’s Trading Standards service carried out the operation on 9 July in Carlisle and 10 July in Workington in...
The UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA) has written to Wes Streeting, the new secretary of state for health and social care, as well as public health minister Andrew Gwynne and shadow health secretary Victoria Atkins, asking...
More than 3,800 non-compliant disposable vapes, counterfeit jewellery and clothing worth over £50,000 have been seized from a premises in Ashington by officers from Northumberland County Council’s Trading Standards Service. Officers attended the business premises in...
Health campaigners have written to US regulators accusing Philip Morris International of misrepresenting past regulatory decisions, seeking to disrupt the launch of its flagship heated tobacco device IQOS in the US. The world's biggest tobacco company...
A large number of illegal cigarettes, tobacco and disposable vapes with a retail value of approximately £260,000 was seized from a storage container and traders across Walsall on Tuesday (9 July) It is one of the...
The UK Vaping Industry Association said it has initiated the application process to become part of the Approved Code scheme of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI). The scheme was created to give greater peace-of-mind and...
Children exposed to vaping indoors absorb less than one seventh the amount of nicotine as children who are exposed to indoor smoking, but more than those exposed to neither, according to a new study led by...
The New Nicotine Alliance (NNA) has called on Wes Streeting, the newly appointed secretary of state for health and social care, to reevaluate current tobacco and vaping policies, emphasising the potential to save lives and reduce...
Vaping firm Riot Labs has taken aim at the government’s vaping legislation again, this time in a bid to keep it at the top of the in-tray for the new Labour government. Delivering a life-sized Boris...
Almost 1,500 illegal vapes were seized from four shops in Chatteris and March in a multi-agency operation last week. The raids, involving Trading Standards, Fenland District Council’s Licensing Team and HMRC, followed an influx of intelligence...
By: David Humphreys, Local Democracy Reporter Police and council officers have swooped in to shut down two shops in south Liverpool over illegal vape sales. As part of its crackdown on illicit trades across the city,...
By: Bill Jacobs, Local Democracy Reporter Plans to rebuild a vape factory gutted by fire have been approved. In September the building off Johnson Way in Blackburn’s Shadsworth Industrial Estate was destroyed. Now Acsini Investments Ltd...
By: John Wimperis, Local Democracy Reporter A corner shop where illegal vapes were allegedly hidden behind boxes of sweets has been stripped of its alcohol licence by North Somerset Council. Mix Store, at 38 Meadow Street...
Haleon plc has announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell its nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) business outside of the US to Hyderabad, India based pharmaceutical firm Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories for £500 million. The...
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