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Cosmetic products: reporting SUEs

Forms for the notification of serious undesirable effects (SUEs) from cosmetic products in Great Britain.

Using the UKCA marking
- Detailed guide
- 17 May 2024
- Department for Business and Trade
Product Recalls and Alerts
- Detailed guide
- 1 April 2025
- Office for Product Safety and Standards
CE marking
- Detailed guide
- 17 May 2024
- Department for Business and Trade and Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
UKCA marking: conformity assessment and documentation
- Detailed guide
- 17 May 2024
- Department for Business and Trade
Making cosmetic products available to consumers in Great Britain
- Detailed guide
- 4 October 2021
- Department for Business and Trade and Office for Product Safety and Standards

OPSS launches new baby sleeping products resources
- 18 March 2025
- Office for Product Safety and Standards
- News story
OPSS adds translations to safety videos for gig economy sector
- 13 March 2025
- Office for Product Safety and Standards
- News story
OPSS warning on dangerous UPP e-bike batteries
- 27 February 2025
- Office for Product Safety and Standards
- News story
Company selling dangerous motorcycle helmets handed large fines
- 25 February 2025
- Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
- News story
Government publishes research report into e-bike battery safety
- 29 January 2025
- Office for Product Safety and Standards
- News story

Trials to increase rates of consumer product registration
- 24 March 2025
- Office for Product Safety and Standards
- Research
Online marketplaces consumer journeys
- 24 March 2025
- Office for Product Safety and Standards
- Research
Construction product incident data identification and evaluation
- 12 February 2025
- Office for Product Safety and Standards
- Research
Safe and sustainable development of advanced materials
- 6 February 2025
- Office for Product Safety and Standards
- Research
Personal light electric vehicle (PLEV) battery safety research
- 29 January 2025
- Office for Product Safety and Standards
- Research

Smarter Regulation: Fire safety of domestic upholstered furniture
- 22 January 2025
- Office for Product Safety and Standards and Department for Business and Trade
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 24 October 2023
Smarter regulation: UK product safety review
- 5 November 2024
- Department for Business and Trade and Office for Product Safety and Standards
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 24 October 2023
Continued recognition of EU requirements, including CE marking, for placing products on the GB Market
- 3 February 2025
- Department for Business and Trade
- Policy paper
Fire safety of domestic upholstered furniture
- 22 January 2025
- Office for Product Safety and Standards
- Policy paper
Measuring noise from outdoor equipment: call for evidence
- 16 September 2024
- Office for Product Safety and Standards
- Closed call for evidence

OPSS Delivery Report 2023-2024
- 19 November 2024
- Office for Product Safety and Standards
- Corporate report
OPSS Delivery Reports
- 9 January 2024
- Office for Product Safety and Standards
- Corporate report
MoU between HSE and OPSS
- 12 September 2023
- Office for Product Safety and Standards and Health and Safety Executive
- Corporate report