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Series 2: Episode 8
Officers team up with the parents of 15-year-old Megan Lee. who died after suffering an allergic reaction to a meal ordered from a takeaway. Megan’s parents, Adam and Gemma, have made a video encouraging food premises to take allergen control more seriously. \n\nTrading Standards officers catch up with a travel company boss who is taking holidaymakers’ money, booking their flights and then cancelling them, leaving them high and dry. And they crack down on a water company after a sewage leak pollutes a stream running through a picturesque Oxfordshire village.
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