In accordance with notifications on EU rapid alert system for non-food (RAPEX) in November 2015, the statistics are indicated as below:

During the month of November, The European Commission validated 223 notifications on dangerous products and transmitted them to EU Member States and EEA countries through the RAPEX system. The total number of notifications is 38% higher than in the month of Nov 2014(162).

25 EU Member States and 2 EEA countries issued notifications through RAPEX system.

Bulgaria was the most frequently notifying country (40 notifications, accounted for 18%). The five most frequently notifying countries are Bulgaria, Hungary, United Kingdom, Malta, and Spain, accounted for 50% of all notifications:

More than half of the dangerous products are originated from China (140 notifications, accounted for 61%):

The Notification validated in November covered 19 categories of products. The five most frequently notified product categories are toys, textiles, lighters, motor vehicles, and electrical equipment:

For toys category, the five most frequently notified risk categories are choking, chemical, injury, burn, strangulation, accounted for 90%:

BACL Suggestion

According to the RAPEX Statistics, apparently, toy is the most frequently notified product category of all notifications. Choking is obviously the most frequently notified risk category for toys. Insomuch that any toy’s manufacturer, importer and distributor should pay close attention to the safety of toys through toys laws and standards. Manufacturer should take measures in advance at every stage to meet the requirement of EU toys regulation and customers, such as structure design without small parts, sharp points and edges, raw material without hazardous substance and so on. In order to ensure all products transported to the European Union are safe, the toy should be submitted to the authorized and professional third part laboratories to verify EU toys safety requirements before transported to EU countries.

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