In accordance with the General Product Safety Directive 2001/95/EC (GPSD) and Regulation 765/2008, in August 2017 the European Commission validated 175 notifications1 on dangerous products and transmitted them to the Member States (EU Member States and EEA-EFTA countries Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway). Most of these concerned products presenting serious risk: 158 notifications (90%). 6 notifications (3%) concerned products presenting less than serious risk and 11 notifications (6%) were circulated for information. ...

General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ) validated notifications on 53 batches of imported industrial goods, which were found non-compliant during inspection and quarantine process at the entry ports of China. They have not been offered for sale on the China market yet and are re-dispatched or destroyed instead according to laws. ...

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recalls 23 batches of products in August 2017. There are 14 batches of Chinese products, accounting for 60.87%. ...

The European Commission validated 309 RASFF notifications this month, including 280 notifications on food, accounting for 90.61%; 21 notifications on feed, accounting for 9.06%; 8 notifications on food contact materials (FCMs), accounting for 2.59%, in which 8 products from China are contained, accounting for 100.00%. ...

On September 19, 2017, the European Commission called for public comments on a proposal to exempt lead from eight use under EU RoHS directive. The public consultation is from 19 September to 17 October. ...

On September 14, 2017, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China (AQSIQ) published the No.73 notification, which request public comment on the catalogue of the State Supervisory Sampling Inspection of Product Quality. This catalogue involves eight kinds of products, consumer goods, textile, electrical and electronic products, light industry products, Construction and decoration materials, Agricultural Capital Goods, Machinery and safety products, Electrical and material products and food related products. The deadline for consultation is October 31. ...

On September 1, 2017, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of India published a notification (No.26/2015-2020), which amends its trade policy of foreign toys to enter the India market. All the imported toys shall comply with articles below. ...

The director of general administration of quality supervision, inspection and quarantine of China(AQSIQ), Zhi Shuping, said China will take the Greatest efforts on containing the trend of fake and shoddy spread. ...

September 6, 2017, The European Commission has notified the WTO of a draft G/TBT/N/EU/504, which intends to amending the migration limit for chromium VI in scraped -off toy materials. ...

November 8th, 2017- Shanghai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau intensively destroyed a large number of importing unqualified apparels, which amounted to 55 thousand, involving 400 batches and totally valued about 300,000 USD ...