BRUSSELS RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT EFFECTIVENESS OF PRODUCT ALERT SYSTEM
May 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has raised concerns about the effectiveness of the European Union's (EU) RAPEX rapid alert consumer protection service that highlights dangerous products - often clothing and textile containing illegal dyes banned in the EU. Although the system swiftly alerts consumer protection authorities within the EU's 27 countries, it has encountered difficulties in tracing original manufacturers outside the EU, warned a Commission report. It said China was a particular problem, where its authorities had probed 599 RAPEX-reported ...
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