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Cosmetic products: reporting SUEs

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

Product Recalls and Alerts
- Detailed guide
- 17 July 2025
- Office for Product Safety and Standards
Using the UKCA marking
- Detailed guide
- 17 May 2024
- Department for Business and Trade
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
Submit a cosmetic product notification
- Detailed guide
- 31 December 2020
- Office for Product Safety and Standards

New posters promoting button battery safety
- 27 May 2025
- Office for Product Safety and Standards
- News story
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

Experiences of non-specialists relating to construction products
- 17 July 2025
- Office for Product Safety and Standards
- Research
Update on OPSS artificial intelligence (AI) research
- 14 July 2025
- Office for Product Safety and Standards
- Research
Product Safety Database annual reports
- 10 July 2025
- Office for Product Safety and Standards
- Official statistics
OPSS product safety and consumers: Wave 8
- 9 July 2025
- Office for Product Safety and Standards
- Research
OPSS product safety and consumers: Wave 7
- 2 July 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