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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 facial cleanser with microbiological risk due to an excessive level of aerobic mesophilic bacteria. The product has been recalled from end users, and advised to stop using the product and return to store.
- A hand cream and body butter with chemical risk as they contain citral above the level where disclosure is required with no indication on the label. The products were rejected at the border.
- A serum targeting dark spots with chemical risk due to the presence of hydroquinone and clobetasol propionate. The product has been destroyed.
A shampoo with microbiological risk due to the presence of bacterium P. Gergoviae. The product has been recalled from end users.
