Action taken by Gloucestershire Trading Standards to real animal fur keyrings being sold as fake fur

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Dear Gloucestershire County Council,

Dear Gloucestershire County Council,

Please provide me with all information in relation to Trading Standards case number 15627485 relating to the sale of real animal fur keyrings being sold as fake fur in Gloucester’s Eastgate Shopping Centre.

Please include:
1. What action if any was taken in relation to this case (please include any assessments made, any telephone calls made to the supplier etc) along with dates and, if possible, times
2. Did Trading Standards find out who the wholesaler of the real fur keyrings was? If so have officers made any attempt to contact the wholesalers.
3. Any other information in relation to this case not covered by the questions above.

Yours faithfully,

Louise Proud

Gloucestershire CC, Gloucestershire County Council

Information request
Our reference: 14178074

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Dear ‎Ms Proud‏
 
Request for Information (Reference: 14178074)
 
Thank you for your request for information, received on the 27th of August
2019.
 
Request summary:
 
 
Please provide me with all information in relation to Trading Standards
case number 15627485 relating to the sale of real animal fur keyrings
being sold as fake fur in Gloucester's Eastgate Shopping Centre.
Please include:
1. What action if any was taken in relation to this case (please include
any assessments made, any telephone calls made to the supplier etc) along
with dates and, if possible, times
2. Did Trading Standards find out who the wholesaler of the real fur
keyrings was? If so have officers made any attempt to contact the
wholesalers.
3. Any other information in relation to this case not covered by the
questions above.
 
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Information request
Our reference: 14178074

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Dear Ms Proud
 
I am pleased to provide a response to your request for information,
received on 27 August 2019 :

Please provide me with all information in relation to Trading Standards
case number 15627485 relating to the sale of real animal fur keyrings
being sold as fake fur in Gloucester's Eastgate Shopping Centre.
Please include:
1. What action if any was taken in relation to this case (please include
any assessments made, any telephone calls made to the supplier etc) along
with dates and, if possible, times
2. Did Trading Standards find out who the wholesaler of the real fur
keyrings was? If so have officers made any attempt to contact the
wholesalers.
3. Any other information in relation to this case not covered by the
questions above.

Please find this information attached.

Gloucestershire County Council has not withheld any information in
relation to this request under the exemptions of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 (FoIA).

I will now close your request as of this date.

Yours sincerely
Leanne Lapington
Information Requests Officer
Information Management Service

01452 324000

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