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Unsafe product categories and UK safety alerts

Choose the type of product you are concerned about. Each category explains common hazards, shows recent official-source alerts, and links directly to FOLO-UP’s unsafe product reporting form.

Not sure which category to choose?

You can still report an unsafe product online. Give us the product name, seller or marketplace, listing URL, and a clear description of what appears unsafe. FOLO-UP can classify the report during review.

Use this page if a toy, game, children’s craft product, fancy-dress item, or battery-powered play product appears unsafe or has failed during normal use.

Report toys and games or check recent safety alerts

Use this page for cosmetics, skincare, hair products, nail products, toiletries, and electrical beauty devices that caused harm or appear incorrectly labelled.

Report beauty and personal care or check recent safety alerts

Use this page for mains-powered, rechargeable, battery-powered, or USB products that overheat, spark, smoke, catch fire, expose live parts, or use an unsafe plug or charger.

Report electrical products or check recent safety alerts

Use this page for hand tools, power tools, ladders, access equipment, and garden machinery that breaks, collapses, overheats, exposes moving parts, or lacks essential safeguards.

Report tools and diy equipment or check recent safety alerts

Use this page for drills, saws, grinders, sanders, nailers, multi-tools, cordless batteries, and chargers that fail or appear to lack required electrical or mechanical protection.

Report power tools or check recent safety alerts

Use this page for telescopic, multipurpose, step, extension, loft, and platform ladders that collapse, flex, slip, unlock, or carry questionable safety claims.

Report ladders or check recent safety alerts

Use this page for washing machines, tumble dryers, dishwashers, fridges, freezers, ovens, cookers, and other large appliances that may present fire, gas, or electric-shock risks.

Report household appliances and white goods or check recent safety alerts

Use this page for portable kitchen, heating, cleaning, and personal-care appliances that overheat, leak, spark, expose live parts, or lack an effective safety cut-off.

Report small household appliances or check recent safety alerts

Use this page for electrical accessories that become hot, spark, fit poorly, expose live pins, have an unsuitable fuse, or make unsupported compliance claims.

Report chargers, plugs, adaptors, and electrical supplies or check recent safety alerts

Use this page for cameras, video doorbells, alarm systems, sensors, access devices, and their power supplies when safety, labelling, support, or connected-product claims appear unreliable.

Report cctv and connected security devices or check recent safety alerts

Use this page for powered or manual garden equipment that exposes blades, loses a guard, overheats, starts unexpectedly, suffers battery failure, or lacks usable safety instructions.

Report garden tools and machinery or check recent safety alerts

Use this page for garments, costumes, nightwear, footwear, and children’s clothing with flammability, drawstring, chemical, small-part, or misleading-labelling concerns.

Report clothing and fancy-dress safety or check recent safety alerts

Use this page for protective equipment, exercise products, bicycles, scooters, weights, benches, and outdoor sports products that break, collapse, detach, or fail to protect the user.

Report sports and fitness equipment or check recent safety alerts

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