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The Regulatory affairs profession is dedicated to helping the public and businesses with consumer law and general enquiries about the trading standards, registration and scientific services. Regulatory affairs professionals can provide assistance on a wide range of matters, including faulty and mis-described goods and services, credit, holiday and timeshare complaints, mail order, unsolicited goods and services, bad trading practices, unfair terms and conditions, home-working and sales.
Regulatory affairs services give help and guidance on how to comply with trading standards law. Regulatory affairs professionals can help on the full range of law including advice on civil and criminal law, quality assurance, standards, unfair competition, labeling and advertising. They also provide scientific advice and analytical services from established laboratories.
Regulatory affairs professionals offer scientific services to local authorities, businesses and members of the public and cover areas of work as diverse as agriculture, asbestos, calibration, food hygiene, food poisoning, food quality, health and safety, instrumental analysis, legionnaire’s disease, pollution, public analyst, toy safety, water and workplace assessment.
Regulatory affairs professionals visit, inspect and test a vast range of products and services to ensure that legal standards of quantity, quality, price, description and safety are maintained. They aim to protect consumers from unsafe goods like dangerous toys and electrical goods, misleading advertising and pricing, short weight or measure, undesirable practices by estate agents, adulterated food, counterfeiting, unsafe storage of petrol and explosives, sales of cigarettes and videos to under-age children and unfair trading. Some regulatory affairs professionals also protect farm animals from disease and suffering.
[Edited on 22-11-2007 by FloraSeed]
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