China remained the country producing most of the dangerous consumer products found in the European Union, an official said Monday, for a 12th year in a row.<\/p>\n
Vera Jourova, the EU’s new commissioner for consumer issues, said it was “surprising how high a number of harmful products come to the European market from China.”<\/p>\n
“The numbers and the situation are not improving.”<\/p>\n
In 2014 64% of the non-food products notified as potentially dangerous through the EU’s rapid alert system stemmed from China and Hong Kong, with a total of 1 501 notifications, according to the annual report.<\/p>\n
The proportion was the same as a year earlier. China is the EU’s largest supplier of goods, according to the European Commission.<\/p>\n
Its accounting for nearly two thirds of potential danger alerts for non-food products compares with 16% of the bloc’s imports coming from China in 2013, according to commission figures.<\/p>\n
Jourova expressed optimism that the issue of the dangerous products could improve, pointing to a special alert system that has been set up for China and a collaborative effort on product safety that has been launched between the Asian giant, the EU and the United States.<\/p>\n
Overall, the EU’s rapid alert system, known as Rapex, identified a record 2 435 products as potentially dangerous last year, 3% more than the year before.<\/p>\n
Products sold online were among the areas that registered an increase in notifications, Jourova noted.<\/p>\n
Toys and clothing, textiles and fashion items continued to generate the most alerts. The most frequently notified problems were injury, chemical and choking risks.<\/p>\n
Most Rapex notifications were made by Hungary, followed by Germany, Spain, France and Cyprus.<\/p>\n
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Source: Fin24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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