120 stop-sale notices issued over unsafe children's products
POSTED: 20 May 2013 4:12 PM
SINGAPORE: SPRING Singapore has issued 120 stop-sale notices to companies whose children's products were found to be unsafe.
SPRING said it focused its surveillance of the children's products market when the Consumer Protection (Consumer Goods Safety Requirements) Regulations came into force in April 2011.
In the last two years, SPRING said it had sent over 600 children's products (including toys, cots and cribs, strollers, walkers, children's apparel and children's accessories) from major and small retailers across Singapore for testing to see if they meet safety standards.
Product testing is conducted at an external laboratory which then submits a report to SPRING.
According to SPRING, there are more than 15,000 product categories under the regulations.
SPRING said it will expand the scope of its surveillance efforts to include more product categories, such as furniture and household electrical appliances like hair straighteners and night lights.
SPRING is the safety authority for general consumer goods in Singapore.
It conducts regular market surveillance to detect unsafe products and issues public notices to caution consumers against such products.
SPRING can stop the sale of unsafe products and issue a public notice to caution consumers against such products.
Anyone who continues to supply unsafe products may be fined up to S$10,000 or be jailed for up to two years, or both.
The public can access SPRING's website for the latest information on Product Safety Alerts and list of Consumer Products Tested.
- CNA/xq
