SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) consumers

Dangerous goods sold online or imported from China - two challenges for RAPEX

Brussels, 25/04/2016 (Agence Europe) - The number of dangerous consumer products flagged up by national authorities in 2015 through the EU's rapid alert system, RAPEX, was 2,072, a figure slightly down on the previous year's (2,435), and 62% of the notified dangerous products were from China (compared with 64% in 2014), according to the RAPEX annual report published by the European Commission on Monday 25 April.

Thanks to RAPEX, information on dangerous products withdrawn from the market...