UK Product Safety Database Alerts August 2025

Update on OPSS product safety alerts and reports of cosmetic products posing a risk to the health and safety of consumers.

Market surveillance authorities, including the Office for Product Safety and Standards and Local Authority Trading Standards, have responsibility for regulating product safety in the UK.  The Product Safety Alerts, Reports and Recalls area is used by UK market surveillance authorities to notify unsafe and noncompliant products, including those that present a risk to the health and safety of consumers.  The online system serves as a single rapid alert system for dangerous consumer products.  Weekly reports are issued on the website.  The weekly reports only cover non-food consumer products; therefore, they do not cover food and drink, vehicles, or medicines and medical devices.

Unsafe products that pose a risk to the health and safety of consumers may be recalled.

CTPA regularly checks the notifications made via the rapid alert system website.  For information, below are recent notifications made:

• A body cream with a chemical risk due to the presence of hydroquinone. The product was rejected at the border and destroyed.
• A skin cream with a chemical risk due to the presence of mercury and clobetasol propionate. The product was rejected at the border and destroyed.
• A skin oil with a chemical risk due to the presence of clobetasol propionate. The product was rejected at the border and destroyed.
• A skin cream with a microbiological risk, due to the presence of candida parapsilosis, micrococcus luteus and microbacterium oxydans bacteria. The product was recalled from end users and withdrawn from the market.
• Facial cleaning wipes with microbiological risk due to the presence of Pluralibacter gergoviae. The product was recalled from end users.
• Toy Make-Up kit with a chemical risk due to the nail varnishes containing methylisothiazolinone. The product was recalled from end users and withdrawn from the market.