Brussels, 16/04/2010 (Agence Europe) - The annual report by RAPEX, the EU rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products, reveals that the number of dangerous consumer products flagged up by member states rose by 7% in 2009 from the previous year, and has more than quadrupled in six years.
This, the European Commission says, is good news for consumer safety, since the increase (1993 products drawn to the Commission's attention in 2009, compared with 1866 in 2008 and only 468 in 2004),...