The Spanish Agency for Consumer Affairs, Food Safety and Nutrition included 89 alerts for non-food products in March on its Web.

In March, the Spanish Agency for Consumer Affairs, Food Safety and Nutrition (AECOSAN) published on its Web 89 notifications received through the Alert Network because they may pose a serious risk to consumers. Of these, 15 were detected at the border and their import rejected, whereas a further 53 were withdrawn from the market and banned from trade

For the remaining 21, it was the manufacturer who, as required by law, notified the consumer authorities of the existence of possible risks in their products and adopted the necessary measures to reduce these.

MOST NOTIFIED PRODUCTS

Toys (38), Vehicles and accessories (16) and Electrical products (12) 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.

• Most of these notifications were for Toys, Vehicles and Accessories and Electrical Products.
• For twenty-one of these, the possible risk was reported and corrected by the manufacturer; and the remaining units were withdrawn from the market.

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

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