The Methodology and Quality report published alongside this report details how the data can and cannot be used. The report sets out high level findings from the PSD incorporating product safety and non-compliance notifications from local authorities and national regulators. Analysis of PSD data can also highlight where there may be emerging safety issues for novel products and within certain sectors, which can feed into and drive OPSS’s regulatory activity and decision making to target market surveillance activity, reduce risk and protect consumers. The PSD is a core dataset for OPSS, providing insight into the market surveillance activity of regulatory officers across the UK and highlighting where the greatest levels of activity are taking place in terms of product sectors, as well as providing an oversight of the most reported hazards and corrective actions taken.

OPSS no longer has access to these records, aside from to fulfil Northern Ireland Protocol commitments.

This enabled a transition from RAPEX/ICSMS until the end of the EU Exit transition period on 31 December 2020. The PSD was introduced in November 2019 to replace two EU systems – RAPEX (Rapid Exchange of Information) and ICSMS (Information and Communication System on Market Surveillance) – in readiness for the UK leaving the EU. A product can be both unsafe and non-compliant. See footnote 1 Unsafe products are those which pose a risk to the health and safety of consumers, whereas non-compliant products are those that do not conform to the relevant product safety legislation. The United Kingdom (UK) Product Safety Database (PSD) is the notification system used by local authority trading standards (environmental health in Northern Ireland), certain national regulators and Office for Products Standards and Safety (OPSS) enforcement teams to notify unsafe and non-compliant products to the Secretary of State, as required in product safety legislation.

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