Office for Product Safety and Standards
Office for Product
Safety & Standards
Safety & Standards
- Consumer products: your safety and protection
- Business regulation: guidance and tools
- Product safety for businesses: A to Z of industry guidance
- National regulation: enforcement services
- National regulation: construction products
- Designated standards
- Local regulation: Primary Authority
- Regulators: professional guidance and tools
- Product safety research
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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.
The Product Regulation and Metrology Act 2025 enables the Government to amend regulations to reflect how products are bought and used today and in the future.
Tough new laws to make online marketplaces safer
Press release
New laws to make online marketplaces safer and protect the public from dangerous products
Latest from the Office for Product Safety and Standards
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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Transparency and freedom of information releases
Our management
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
4th Floor Multistory
18 The Priory Queensway
Birmingham
B4 6BS
United Kingdom
Enquiries
0121 345 1201
Teddington Office
Office for Product Safety and Standards
Stanton Avenue
Teddington
Middlesex
TW11 0JZ
United Kingdom
Stanton Avenue
Teddington
Middlesex
TW11 0JZ
United Kingdom
Enquiries
0121 345 1201
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Freedom of Information requests
Information Rights Unit
Department for Business and Trade
Old Admiralty Building
London
SW1A 2DY
United Kingdom
Department for Business and Trade
Old Admiralty Building
London
SW1A 2DY
United Kingdom