New guide to improve consumer product safety recalls

摘要

The Code of Practice includes details on how a business can monitor the safety of products and plan for a recall, and how market surveillance authorities such as local authority trading standards can support businesses in their monitoring of incidents and their implementation of corrective action.The Code of Practice, developed by BSI, is the first major initiative for the new office which was launched by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in January. It follows a recommendation by the Working Group on Products Recalls and Safety to introduce such a code to further strengthen the UK's already tough product safety regime.This was created with the assistance of leading retailers, consumer interest groups and industry bodies, including: Tesco, Samsung Electronics, British Retail Consortium, Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and the Association of Chief Trading Standards Officers.