Safety Gate: the EU rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products
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#2I didn't know the EU had a centralised platform for recalls like this.
It's quite interesting to see toxic perfume bottles listed right next to cars (https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/ale...). That's a lot of recall variety for one single platform!
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#3Is this a new frontend to Rapex? Did they rename Rapex?
Because consumer safety warnings (often toys with swallowing/strangulating hazards) have been available on some EU web site for years (decades, probably).
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#6omg the baby self feeding pillows
edit: loads of them https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/ale...
I suppose they have had to really scale up the testing/alert system in the last decade or so due to influx of millions of new products
Re: Safety Gate: the EU rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products
#7Is this a new frontend to Rapex? Did they rename Rapex? Because consumer safety warnings (often toys with swallowing/strangulating hazards) have been available on some EU web site for years (decades, probably).
Yeah they changed the name in 2019 (DECISION (EU) 2019/417), but it has existed since 2001. The name change was "For external communication reasons", probably due to it being read as "rape-x"
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#8I read the name and was looking for where the corruption scandal was, but instead it is a consumer protection site.
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The headline says "non-food products", so no, that would be stupid. If it is indeed dangerous then it should be regulated as dangerous foods which is something EFSA handles.
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The headline says "non-food products", so no, that would be stupid. If it is indeed dangerous then it should be regulated as dangerous foods which is something EFSA handles.
People mistakenly consider that food and some corporations support this misconception to exploit it for profit. Some people mistakenly consider silicagel food as well (there would be no need to write "do not eat" on it if nobody did) but this doesn't mean it actually is food. Some even say cocaine is a vitamin. There are many substances which occur in our bodies naturally and play important roles in its functioning but are not foods. For example thyroxine is not a food as well, although our bodies produce and use it in some amounts for vital purposes. Same way sugar.