The Spanish Agency for Consumer Affairs, Food Safety and Nutrition included 20 alerts for non-food products in June on its Web.
Date: 11 julio 2017
Section: Consumo
- Most of these notifications were for Lighting and Electrical Products.
- For four of these, the possible risk was reported and corrected by the manufacturer; and the remaining units were withdrawn from the market.
In June, the Spanish Agency for Consumer Affairs, Food Safety and Nutrition (AECOSAN) published on its Web 20 notifications received through the Alert Network because they may pose a serious risk to consumers. Of these, 4 were detected at the border and their import rejected, whereas a further 12 were withdrawn from the market and banned from trade.
For the remaining 4, 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
Lighting (6) and electrical products (4) received the highest number of notifications, given the requirements of the legislation which regulates them, whose non-compliance was detected by the inspection services of the Autonomous Communities.
The risks posed are the consequence of the irregularities observed.
|
Category |
Number of alerts |
| Lighting | 6 |
| Electrical products | 4 |
| Vehicles and accessories | 3 |
| Toys | 3 |
| Children's fashion and accessories | 2 |
| Adult fashion and accessories | 1 |
| Leisure and sports articles, various | 1 |
| 20 |
|
Country of origin |
Number of alerts |
| China | 13 |
| France | 2 |
| Unknown | 1 |
| Holland | 1 |
| India | 1 |
| Japan | 1 |
| Ukraine | 1 |
| 20 |
The list of products and the specifications for each one, together with their photos can be found on the AECOSAN Web page.