Time to raise the trading standards From: Evening News - Scotland | Date: October 8, 2002| Author: Patrick Browne | Copyright 2002 Evening News - Scotland. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

ASK any Edinburgh business person what single thing makes their work more difficult and they will tell you it's complying with the rules and regulations that impact on their business.

That's why they should have been interested by the publication of the Made to Measure report by the Accounts Commission on the effectiveness and performance of Scotland's 32 local trading standards departments.

Trading standards departments do a valuable job. Scotland's trading standards departmen...

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