PRODUCT SAFETY
February 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN Union (EU) and USA product safety watchdogs are to exchange information in the future, to help protect American and European consumers from dangerous goods. Senior European Commission and US Consumer Product Safety Commission officials have agreed to regularly exchanges of information about products that have been withdrawn from US or EU markets. European health and consumer affairs Commissioner Markos Kyprianou said: "Many products are sold in both the US and the EU markets, so a dangerous product identified on one market can often be ...
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