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People may say, “Well, this is special pleading”. It is, but it is very much needed. In the last 14 years we have seen trading standards losing north of 40% of the resources available to them. Local trading standards officers enforce many product safety and measurement rules, but they have many competing priorities, which means that not as much enforcement work takes place as each local trading standards service would wish. That becomes more problematic with more online sales taking place year on year.