Trading standards officers are demanding tighter regulations for websites which sell food products after they found three quarters of food for sale on eBay fails relevant hygiene and packaging laws.
Investigators bought 89 products, 65 of which were unfit for sale in a British supermarket (73 per cent). Faulty labelling was the main problem of 51 products, while 12 failed to meet ingredient laws. The survey was carried out over three months of last year by Durham Trading Standards funded by the Food Standards Agency (FSA).

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Posted: 03|1|06 at 9:58 am. Filed under: Auction News.