Trading Standards - product safety

Our Trading Standards service has an important role in supporting and advising businesses, as well as cracking down on unsafe products and unscrupulous traders. We also give you access to safety warnings and safety advice sheets.

Complaints

We can respond to your complaints if, for example, you have bought potentially dangerous goods or toys. See advice to consumers for more on how we deal with complaints.

Safety warnings

You can view the latest product safety warnings and product recalls.

Advice on safety

Our self-help advice sheets on safety include:

• Selling safe second-hand electrical goods
• Selling safe toys
• Selling safe part-worn tyres.

These pages are linked to the National Trading Standards Organisation site which contains regularly updated information on recent cases and trends.

Who to contact

See Trading Standards - who to contact.