Product safety
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- Airbags/seat belts
- Allergy
- Animal
- Bikes and pedestrians
- Car parts
- Chemicals
- Childcare
- Electricity
- Falls
- Fire
- First Aid
- Food
- Garden
- Gas
- Infection
- Inhalation
- Knives
- Labelling
- Leisure
- Lighters
- Packaging
- Playground
- Poison
- Prosafe
- Protective equipment
- Pyrotechnic articles
- Rapex
- Recall
- Recycling/Environment
- Risk assessment
- Road safety
- Sensitive skin
- Smoke alarm
- Standards
- Textile
- Toys
- Traceability
- Trading Standards
- UV rays
- Weapon
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Legal validation: 15/03/2011
Textile
Definition of textiles
Into: General product safety 
Product categories Textile products
Textile products must be labelled or marked whenever they are put onto the market for sale to consumers. The names, descriptions and details of textile fibre content must be indicated on products offered for sale to consumers. A textile product composed of two or more components which have different compositions must bear a label stating the fibre content of each component. EU regulations on textile products applies to textile products exclusively composed of textile fibres, products (...) Read more
Nightwear and fire safety
Into: General product safety Product categories Textile products
Nightwear can burn rapidly, when accidentally set alight by contact with an open fire or a gas or electric fire or other heat source, and cause serious injury - children and the elderly being especially vulnerable. In the UK, various mandatory and voluntary measures have been taken to control the fire performance of the fabrics used in nightwear and to make the public more aware of the dangers. The Nightwear (Safety) Regulations 1985 specify performance and labelling requirements (...) Read more
Fire
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Textile
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Smoke alarm
Textiles and UV rays
Into: General product safety Product categories Textile products
Recent tests on sun hats, baseball caps, sunshades and parasols have revealed that some are failing to protect vulnerable babies and children from harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays. As the ozone that protects us from the worst of the suns damaging rays becomes more depleted, it is even more important to ensure our clothing can stand the heat. Different types of clothing can give different levels of protection. Studies have shown that various aspects of a fabric affect the protection it (...) Read more
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