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Ensuring product safety, particularly the safety of toys, is a priority in the protection of public health and children’s health in particular.
The necessary checking and quality control of products is an essential mechanism in achieving this objective. Companies and competent national public authorities should carry out this control and certification as a preventative measure.
As legislation defines all the safety rules with which products must naturally comply, it is up to the company or companies designing, producing and marketing these products to assume their responsibilities.
The initial reaction to unsafe products or products harmful to health, particularly toys, being imported from third countries is to try and shift the blame onto others, to the point that the
noticed that the Mattel company had formally apologised to the Chinese Government and people. It should be stressed that many imported products are made in third countries but their owners are large EU-based multinationals, which, greedy for profits, transfer their production elsewhere.
Furthermore, focusing the discussion of poor quality on imported products only obscures the fact that many products made in the EU also do not comply with the standards in force."@en1
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