{"id":34557,"date":"2025-11-21T10:34:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsbites.hktdc.com\/?p=34557"},"modified":"2025-11-21T10:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:47:10","slug":"uk-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsbites.hktdc.com\/markets\/uk-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"UK OPSS Product Safety: 2025 Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Recently, the UK Office of Product Safety and Standards (OPSS<\/strong>) published the UK Product Safety Database (PSD) report for 2024-2025<\/strong><\/a>. The database contains safety alerts raised by market surveillance authorities. It highlights where activity is most concentrated by product sector and provides an overview of the most frequently reported harms and corrective actions.<\/p>

For the reporting period from April 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025, a total of 1,418 notifications were received on the PSD, covering 1,792 products. Of these, 24% (335) were classed as serious, 12% (173) were classed as high, 8% (114) as medium and 10% (143) as low. No risk level was assigned in 44% (620) of cases and the risk level was inconclusive in 2% (33) of cases.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Top 10 Product Categories with Reported Safety Incidents<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The most frequently notified product category in the PSD was electrical appliances and equipment<\/strong> (26%), followed by toys<\/strong> (19%) and cosmetics<\/strong> (12%).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The most common sources of harm were fire<\/strong> (23%), injuries<\/strong> (19%) and electric shock<\/strong> (15%). The following chart shows the top 10 sources of harm. It should be noted that harm sources are only assigned to products listed in the PSD as \u2018unsafe\u2019 or \u2018unsafe and non-compliant\u2019<\/em>. This comprised 906 of the 1792 product types investigated.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The following chart shows how authorities have responded to the findings in the PSD. The most common action was \u2018import rejected at border\u2019<\/strong> (35%), followed by \u2018destruction of the product\u2019<\/strong> (19%) and \u2018removal of the product listing\u2019<\/strong> (13%).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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