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Into: Product Safety -Dangerous imitations -Products resembling foodstuffs

You can obtain more information on this topic from RAPEX is the EU rapid alert system for all dangerous consumer products, with the exception of food, pharmaceutical and medical devices www.ec.europa.eu/consumers/dyna/rapex The National Standards Authority Of Ireland (NSAI) The NSAI Is Ireland’s Standards Body. NSAI facilitates the development of voluntary standard documents which manufacturers/service providers may use as an aid to meeting safety requirements. These standards are (...) Read more

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General market surveillance obligations for Member States

Into: Product Safety -Legal aspects of product safety -General product safety

Effective market surveillance is an essential condition for ensuring a high level of consumer’s protection. The member states of the European Union have to implement measures to ensure that producers and distributors respect their obligations with regards to safety. For that purpose, member states have to: establish competent authorities to ensure manufacturers and distributors meet their safety obligations Member States have obligation concerning: Organization - Member States must (...) Read more

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System of Notification

Into: Product Safety -Sources of help and advice

There is also a “Rapid Alert System” which allows particularly dangerous products to be withdrawn from all European markets.The European Commission gives guidance to manufacturers on how to organise a product recall. Details of all products that have been recalled in the EU are displayed on the RAPEX website. RAPEX stands for the Rapid Alert System for Non Food Products, and covers all consumer products except for food and medicines (which have similar but separate systems). This system (...) Read more

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Market surveillance

Into: Product Safety -How product safety is ensured! -Safety labelling

The Rapex system is designed to allow information on products deemed to pose a hazard to consumers to be transmitted between market surveillance authorities across Europe. These notifications arise either through the actions of these authorities or as a result of voluntary recalls by producers. All traders/representative bodies are required to notify NCA if they are aware that any of the products notified under the Rapex system are available on the Irish market. © European Union, 2010 (...) Read more

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