OPSS publishes consumer product compliance research and science and analysis report

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The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) has published a research report on consumer product compliance to build an understanding of the market, alongside its first Science and Analysis in OPSS report. Its aims in the product compliance report were to develop and test a methodology to generate baseline compliance data across a ‘basket of goods’ comprising popular consumer products bought in-store and online, develop a system of testing these products in a laboratory setting against the appropriate standards and regulations, and assess baseline product safety compliance for the OPSS ‘basket of goods’. While OPSS makes it clear that the results cannot be used to estimate compliance at a wider or national level, due to the sampling methodology used, the findings have been used as an intelligence source to inform OPSS’s regulatory interventions. As for its Science and Analysis in OPSS report, an overview of its use of its evidence,...