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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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 was invited to deliver training presentation at AMAZON webinar

AMAZON CHINA organised the webinar, titled as “the Toy and Baby Products Compliance” on 27 July 2021, in order to introduce the compliance of toy

SPEAC Webinar guided Chinese manufactures on how to conduct a risk assessment

This eighth webinar with the CHINA TOYS & JUVENILE PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION (CTJPA) was conducted successfully on 22 July 2021. The opening address was delivered by

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