SPEAC – Safe non-food consumer Products in the EU and China

EU Product Safety Rules

What problems exist?

Product safety problems mainly exist with toys, child and baby products, and electrical household items.

What does the information tell us?

Chemical poisoning, choking, electric shock and fire are the 5 most noted risks for consumers.

What type of safety issues?

Everyone who takes part in the supply of products has a role to play in ensuring that only safe products are supplied.

What makes a toy DANGEROUS?

There are certain rules that need to be followed when placing a product on the market.

Safety Gate: Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products

The Safety Gate rapid alert system enables quick exchange of information between EU/EEA member states, the UK and the European Commission about dangerous non-food products posing a risk to health and safety of consumers. By checking this website, you can see what safety problems have been caused by others, helping you avoid making the same mistakes.

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how can Safety problems arise?

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News & SPEAC Activities

Here is the latest big news on non-food consumer product safety in EU and China, as well as the conducted and upcoming activities of SPEAC. To understand policy trends and our work, please keep an eye on this part.

SPEAC answered FAQs on toy safety for the EU market

This seminar of the EU-funded SPEAC project on “FAQs on EU compliance for Toy Safety” was held in cooperation with HQTS group. on 20 May

UPCOMING: SPEAC webinar on Electrical home appliances safety will be organized on 27 May 2022

The sixth joint webinar of SPEAC with the Zhejiang Institute of Standardization (ZIS) on “EU Product Safety Rules” will be conducted at 15:00-16:30 (Beijing Time)

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