Consumer Services
Consumer Services
The Consumer Services Division protects the citizens of this state from fraud by ensuring net content statements on packages and weighing or measuring devices are correct; ensuring that agricultural products are measured correctly when being bought or sold; maintaining the state's primary standards for mass, length, and volume and furnishing calibration services to industry; ensuring that eggs marketed in the state are properly graded and labeled; ensuring prompt and full payment to the state's farmers for the products they produce; regulating warehouse facilities where farmers store their cotton and grain crops; ensuring the accuracy of weights and measurements when commodities are bought and sold in bulk; inspecting manufacturing and storage facilities for foods and cosmetics; and drawing official samples for the Department's Laboratory Division to ensure the quality of motor fuels, the quality and safety of some food products, and the quality of some agricultural products.
Laws Administered
The Division administers the Weights and Measures Law, the Egg Law, Public Weighmasters Law, Dealers and Handlers Law, State Warehouse System Law, Food and Cosmetic Law, and also assists the Laboratory Division in the enforcement of several other laws.
Carol Fulmer
Director of Consumer Services
(803) 737-9690
