Germany Creates Initiative Against Dangerous

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Looks like someone learned something from the poisoned China wares:

Germany Launches Initiative Against Dangerous Products (DW-TV 24.08.2007)

While the scandal and embarassment over dangerous and defective children's toys continues in China, Germany has announced an intitiative to promote stringent safety standards within the European Union.

The recall of 18 million Chinese-made products by US toy giant Mattel because of safety concerns has led to Germany launching its own initiative against defective and dangerous products.

The German economics ministry announced Thursday that it planned to host a round-table discussion on the subject on August 30 with manufacturers, industry groups, consumer protection organizations and the 16 regional states.

While acknowledging that the European Union sets high standards for product quality, the ministry’s statement called for more to be done to and suggested a quality seal verifying products are safe.

"Labelling to indicate the quality (of a product) is in the most basic interest of the German economy," the ministry said.

"German products in particular but also European products with high quality standards must compete on the market every day against much more cheaply produced products -- for example from Asia."

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Edited August 26, 2007 by questionmark