Process between the SPoC and NCH for managing split consignments

External process for managing consignments subject to Trading Standards holds where goods are refused release to the free market

BIFA have been made aware that the co-ordination national product safety checks, which is currently co-ordinated by Suffolk Port Health, is being transferred to the Office of Product Safety.  More information will be provided in the October edition of BIFAlink, although the key effect is that regulatory enforcement is being transferred from local to central government and to the department responsible for policy.