EU CONSUMER HEALTH WARNING DATABASE REPORT INDICATES RISE IN REPORTS ON AUTOS AND PARTS DURING 2016
March 1st, 2017
AUTOMOTIVE parts and vehicles have become the second most dangerous category of goods in the European Union (EU) in 2016, according to the most recent annual report of the EU’s ‘Rapid Alert System for non-food dangerous products’, or RAPEX.
The system routes safety alerts about consumer products within the 28 member states of the EU. And last year, 18% of safety alerts were about automobiles and parts, with 372 notifications, behind toys, at 540. This compared to 2015, when automotive warnings made up just 10% of overall notifications, being behind toys ...
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