The Spanish Agency for Consumer Affairs, Food Safety and Nutrition included 26 alerts for non-food products in August on its Web.
Post: Spanish Agency for Consumer Affairs, Food Safety and Nutrition
Date: 11 septiembre 2017
Section: Consumo
- Most of these notifications were for Toys, Vehicles and Accessories and Electrical Products.
- For six of these, the possible risk was reported and corrected by the manufacturer; and the remaining units were withdrawn from the market.
In August, the Spanish Agency for Consumer Affairs, Food Safety and Nutrition (AECOSAN) published on its Web 26 notifications received through the Alert Network because they may pose a serious risk to consumers. Of these, 20 were withdrawn from the market and their sale banned.
For the remaining 6, it was the manufacturer who, as required by law, notified the consumer authorities of the existence of possible risks in their products took the necessary actions to reduce these.
MOST NOTIFIED PRODUCTS
Toys (6), Vehicles and accessories (5) and Electrical products (4) received the highest number of notifications. In the case of toys, due to the special monitoring to which they are subject by the inspection services as they are intended for a vulnerable population and in vehicles and accessories, the monitoring performed by the producers themselves.
The risks posed are the consequence of the irregularities observed.
|
Category |
Number of alerts |
|
Toys |
6 |
|
Vehicles and accessories |
5 |
|
Electrical products |
4 |
|
Children's fashion and accessories |
3 |
|
Lighting |
2 |
|
Children's articles |
2 |
|
Chemical products |
1 |
|
Personal protection equipment |
1 |
|
Fancy dress and joke products |
1 |
|
Leisure and sports articles, various |
1 |
|
|
26 |
|
Country of origin |
Number of alerts |
|
China |
13 |
|
Unknown |
6 |
|
Spain |
3 |
|
France |
3 |
|
Romania |
1 |
|
|
26 |
The list of products and the specifications for each one, together with their photos can be found on theAECOSAN Web page