Office for Product Safety and Standards

Part of Department for Business and Trade

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Product Recalls and Alerts

Guidance

Information on OPSS product safety alerts, reports and recalls for unsafe products and resources for consumers, businesses and regulators.

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Refining the law to better protect consumers

Guidance

Through the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill, the Government will be able to amend regulations to reflect how products are bought and used today and in the future.

Product Regulation and Metrology Bill

New posters promoting button battery safety

News story

New posters promoting button battery safety provide 5 top tips to keep children safe.

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What we do

Our primary purpose is to protect people and places from product-related harm, ensuring consumers and businesses can buy and sell products with confidence.

Office for Product Safety and Standards is part of the Department for Business and Trade.

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Our management

Graham Russell MBE
CEO, Office for Product Safety and Standards

Contact the Office for Product Safety and Standards

Birmingham Office

Office for Product Safety and Standards
4th Floor Multistory
18 The Priory Queensway
Birmingham
B4 6BS
United Kingdom

Email

OPSS.enquiries@businessandtrade.gov.uk

Enquiries

0121 345 1201

Teddington Office

Office for Product Safety and Standards
Stanton Avenue
Teddington
Middlesex
TW11 0JZ
United Kingdom

Enquiries

0121 345 1201

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Department for Business and Trade
Old Admiralty Building
London
SW1A 2DY
United Kingdom

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