The City of York Council’s trading standards team targeted businesses selling oversized e-cigarettes with more than the permitted 2ml of nicotine liquid in what they have dubbed ‘operation hunter’. Over two days trading standards seized 1,096 non-compliant e-cigarettes from three city centre businesses worth £13,152.
” Matt Boxall, head of public protection at City of York Council, said: “We will always act on information from the public and will ensure that any items being sold illegally are removed from sale. “The message to businesses in York is don’t sell them here. “If you do, we will seize them.” In December 2023, the Local Democracy Reporting Service revealed that cotton candy and strawberry ice cream were being sold in the B&M confectionary aisle of its Foss Island store.