Resources

This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: Publication: Pop Mart Authentication Guide and Authentication Points – The Monsters Plush Toys; e-learning course on PAS 7050 and PAS 7100
Legal Metrology: Request for Section 70 Weights and Measures returns 2025-26
Construction Products: OPSS Construction Products Product Information Packs (PIPs); PAS 2000:2026 Construction Products – Bringing Safe Products to Market – Code of Practice
Primary Authority: Update to Primary Authority Partnership assistance form; Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Wider Updates: Building LA capability training sessions 
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Resources provided by OPSS for submitting a Section 70 return under the Weights and Measures Act 1985 Act. This includes the form, and the guidance on how to complete the form.

This email contains information on the following:

Heat soaked thermally toughened glass regulatory report
Consultation open – Construction Products Reform White Paper
Consultation open – general safety requirement for construction products
Dates to Note

This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: Update on OPSS risk assessment for products with sand that contains asbestos for UK regulators; Product Safety Framework Reform Consultations; proposal to amend recreational craft designated standards; MHCLG fire safety advice update: e-bike and e-scooter lithium-ion batteries
Legal metrology: Reminder to provide updated contact information
Construction Products: Reminder: Consultation open – Construction Products Reform White Paper; reminder: Consultation open – general safety requirement for construction products
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Wider Updates: Building LA capability training sessions
Dates to note

An official authentication Guide provided by PopMart specifically related to the Monsters line of Products, which may be of use to Local Authority Trading Standards and EHNI officers seeking to identify counterfeits

An official authentication guide provided by PopMart, which produces Labubus and other collectibles

This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: Launch of Product Safety Framework Reform Consultations
Legal Metrology: Reminder: Updated contacts for Section 70 Weights and Measures Act 1985 returns
Primary Authority: Reminder: Primary Authority Register update – multi-user accounts; Businesses seeking Primary Authority – new opportunities
Dates to note

This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: Borderline cosmetic and aesthetic products guidance on Regulators’ Companion; Designated standards: notices of publication
Legal Metrology: Updated contacts for Section 70 Weights and Measures Act 1985 returns; reminder: resource on licensed premises inspections; UK national type approval certificates
Primary Authority: Reminder: Primary Authority Register update – multi-user accounts; businesses seeking Primary Authority
Wider Updates: Building LA capability training sessions
Dates to note

This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: Borderline cosmetic and aesthetic products guidance
Legal Metrology: Licensed premises inspections resource
Primary Authority: Reminder: Primary Authority Register update – multi-user accounts; businesses seeking Primary Authority
Wider Updates: Building LA capability training sessions
Dates to note

This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: Heat Pump Tumble Dryer Corrective Action Programme; Post Fire Identification of Appliances; Identifying Modified Whirlpool Tumble Dryers; Burns Risks – Aerosolised Foaming Soap
Construction Products: Consultations now open – Construction Products Reform White Paper and general safety requirement for construction products
Primary Authority: Reminder: Primary Authority Register Update – Multi-user accounts; Businesses seeking Primary Authority; Primary Authority Training
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This document has been prepared by members of the Product Safety Representatives Group, which is made of representatives of product safety groups from the regions and nations of the UK and is being shared by the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) with Local Authority Trading Standards and Environmental Health Officers for the purpose of providing peer guidance to Local Authority Trading Standards and Environmental Health Officers on the matter of aesthetic products that are neither classed as cosmetic or medical products.

This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: Product Recalls and Alerts - Kids Stuff Crazy Foaming Soap; 2025/26 Product Safety Sampling Protocol
Legal Metrology: Guidance on beer measuring equipment
Primary Authority: Reminder: Primary Authority Register Update – Multi-user accounts; Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Construction Products: Operation Dogwood
Wider Updates: Building LA Capability Training Sessions; Business Reference Panel
Dates to note

This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: Update to asbestos resources; OPSS’ Safe vape usage and disposal awareness campaign
Construction Products: Construction Products Reform White Paper and general safety requirement for construction products consultations; Operation Dogwood
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Wider Updates: Business Reference Panel; Building LA capability training sessions
Dates to note

OPSS hosted the online Business Reference Panel on 4 March. The agenda included items on innovative product regulation and ai enabled products; preparations for consultation on the core product safety framework; and regulation of online market places and protection of intellectual property rights on e-commerce platforms.

A detailed summary of the arrangements in place to make notifications outside the UK, but the initial obligation is on a business to meet its overseas notification obligations.

Information for Heads of Service relating to new resources on asbestos

This email contains information on the following:

Product Safety: Asbestos in play sand local authority briefing: feedback, recording and other resources; Call for Evidence on machinery safety; forward look: disposal of vapes consumer awareness campaign; feasibility of collecting accident data relating to consumer products from the NHS

Legal Metrology: Consultation outcome - measuring instruments display requirements for energy smart appliances (ESAs)
Construction Products: Consultation now open – Construction Products Reform White Paper; Consultation now open – General Safety Requirement for Construction Products
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Wider Updates: Building LA capability training sessions; Regulators’ Companion LA training recordings
Dates to Note

A recording of and the slides used during the OPSS Online Briefing for LAs on Asbestos in Play Sand on Tuesday 24 February 2026.

(Note: this guidance applies to CURRENT products and will be superseded by the Environment Protection (Single Use Vapes) Regulations which come into effect on the 1st June 2025)

This email contains information on the following:

Important Notice: Local Authority online briefing on products containing asbestos and further recall
Product Safety: Designated standards – toy safety; 2024/25 Product Safety Sampling Protocol publication; Post Implementation review of the Energy Information (lighting) legislation – GB only
Primary Authority: Businesses seeking Primary Authority
Wider Updates: Building LA capability training sessions; Regulators’ Companion LA training recordings
Dates to Note

This email contains information on the following:

Important notice: Local Authority online briefing on products containing asbestos, and new recalls
Product Safety: Product Safety Sampling Protocol and the Product Safety Database; 2024/25 Product Safety Sampling Protocol publication; forward look – next phase for Online Marketplaces consumer awareness campaign
Primary Authority: Updates on partnerships within the tobacco industry; businesses seeking Primary Authority
Construction Products: Understanding your Declaration of Performance obligations for the GB market
Wider Updates: Building LA capability training sessions  
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