If you are a craft maker based in Cornwall, producing crafts such as candles, cards or jewellery, you need to be aware of:
- Ensuring the metal content of wearable items is within the legal limits
- Compliance for selling your products via online auction websites or marketplaces
- Compliance with product safety laws
- Ensure labelling requirements are met
- Special requirements for items that resemble food products
- Import/export certificates
If you do not take steps to ensure compliance with applicable laws, you can be held liable for unsafe products. This may cause, for example, personal injury or property damage.
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Our Business Regulatory Support team are here to help take the stress out of regulation, so you can focus on your business.
We offer free signposting and specialist tailored advice on a cost recovery basis.
Contact our friendly team today on 0300 1234 212 or email businessadvice@cornwall.gov.uk to discuss your business needs
We are always pleased to help you to get it right.
Self Service Information for Craft makers
If you are confident in ensuring your own compliance, here are some links to further information which may help.
- Business Companion - Information and guidance on the requirements on nickel, lead and cadmium in jewellery, and why this is controlled
- Selling via auction websites - Special rules apply when selling over the internet via an auction site or marketplace (as opposed to your own website)
- Product safety - If you import, produce or distribute goods, including second-hand, the law states they must be safe for the consumer to use
- Product safety: Toys - The labelling and safety requirements for new toys, and how the law applies to toys sold second-hand
- Product safety and legislation for aromatherapy producers who make items such as candles, diffusers, oil heaters, room sprays and lamps
- Labelling textiles - If you sell textiles you need to label them correctly with the fibre content
- Products that resemble food - Information and guidance on the law on the supply of articles that resemble food products
- Safety requirements of giftware - The safety requirements of different types of giftware, including candles, collectors' items and models
- Pedlars certificate - The certificate lets you sell throughout the UK. You must trade on foot and carry your goods with you
- Pop up sites - Information for Trading on Council owned sites across the Duchy
If there are topics not covered in the list above, we would also recommend reading our more general self service information.
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