Delivered by Eamonn Quinn
10.00am - 12.10pm
Date Tuesday 16th September 2025
Virtual Training via Microsoft Teams
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Trainer Bio
Eamonn was a Trading Standards Officer with Cumbria Trading Standards from 1986 to 2014 and is an experienced trainer in food standards. He was also the Lead Officer Food with Cumbria Trading Standards from 1999 to 2014.
Eamonn has sat on national food panels including the LACOTS Food Standards Group, which he chaired from 2006 to 2010. He was also the Food Standards Trainer, Food Written and Food Oral examiner for CTSI under the Trading Standards Qualification Framework (TSQF). He continues to be the CTSI Food Standards trainer for the new CPCF qualification framework. In his role as a Trading Standards Officer and more latterly as a Team Leader, Eamonn has provided training on a range of Trading Standards functions, both to colleagues and to other authorities.
In 2014, he decided to leave Trading Standards to set up his own training and consultancy business, Horizon Consultancies Ltd. He has subsequently provided food standards training across the UK, including Local Authorities, Trading Standards branches and to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Eamonn's training is structured to combine a detailed knowledge of food standards enforcement together with a wealth of practical enforcement experience.
Course Programme
The session will be suitable for Trading Standards Staff who need an introduction to food standards offences and also for those who simply want a refresher.
It will focus on the practical aspects of investigating food standards offences.
The training will commence with an outline of the range of offences available under food legislation.
It will then develop the investigative methods that can be used to:
- secure evidence of an offence. This will include types of sampling and evidence from consumers as well as outlining an Officer`s powers.
- progress the evidence to a position when it can be used in proceedings. This will include how evidence can be collected, stored & transported whilst maintaining evidential traceability.
- outline the areas that a PACE interview, if conducted, should include.
- The course will not focus on civil remedies, such as Notice or FPNs.
The booking window closes 2 days prior to the course.
The bitesize training will be a total of 2 hours 10 minutes, with 2 hours of CPPD awarded.
Joining information and available presentations will be circulated 24 hours before the course, ready for the training session.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
If you are requesting an account, please be aware that it has to be manually approved by the CEnTSA Co-ordination Team. If you don't get an auto-reply through straight away, then rest assured the request has gone through and is waiting for approval.
If your request gets rejected, this could be because:
1) You already have an account; I will reset your password and drop you an email
2) You've sent multiple account requests, but there will be one approval email in there.
Any issues, please contact us at centsa@warwickshire.gov.uk
