The Spanish Agency for Consumer Affairs, Food Safety and Nutrition included 67 alerts for non-food products in January on its Web.

• Most of these notifications were for Toys and Lighting
• Twelve of these were detected and rejected at the border; in a further seven, the possible risk was reported and corrected by the manufacturer; and the remaining units were withdrawn from the market

In January, the Spanish Agency for Consumer Affairs, Food Safety and Nutrition (AECOSAN) published on its Web 67 notifications received through the Alert Network because they may pose a serious risk to consumers. Of these, 12 were detected at the border and their import rejected, whereas a further 48 were withdrawn from the market and banned from trade

For the remaining 7, it was the manufacturer who, as required by law, notified the consumer authorities of the existence of possible risks in their products and took the necessary actions to reduce these.

MOST NOTIFIED PRODUCTS

Toys (29) and Lighting (11) are the products which received most notifications, given the requirements of the legislation which regulates them and, in the case of toys, the special monitoring to which they are subject by the inspection services as they are intended for a vulnerable population.

The risks posed are the consequence of the irregularities observed.

The list of products and the specifications for each one, together with their photos can be found on the AECOSAN Web page

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