Introduction to South Tyneside Trading Standards
Our responsibilities
Some of the areas we are responsible for include:
- advertising and description of goods or services
- safety of consumer goods
- estate agents
- credit and loans
- weights and measures equipment
- hallmarking
- doorstep crime
- rogue traders
- counterfeit goods
- Illegal tobacco & 'Tab Houses'
- underage sales
- pricing
- and much more