How watchdogs keep eye on festive frenzy

As shoppers go into a festive frenzy buying presents for friends and family, Norfolk’s watchdogs are hard at work ensuring the products they are purchasing are safe and legal.
Christmas is one of the busiest times of the year for Norfolk Trading Standards and already this month officers have seized hundreds of unsafe toys from a city centre retailer.
The seizure of toys from a stall on the ground floor of The Mall came following a complaint from a member of the public. It has now stopped trading after it turned out the toys had no CE safety markings.
Here Trading Standards demonstrates how some of the toys, some of which were counterfeit My Kitty products, failed to meet basic safety tests.

December 14, 2007

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