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These are items such as baby items, toys, electrical equipment and paints for tattoos.
The City Council offers a web accessible to all citizens with all product alerts: http://www.sanidadyconsumo.lorca.es/alertas.asp
The Councilor for Consumer Affairs in the City of Lorca, María del Carmen Ruiz, has reported that the Municipal Inspection of this municipal area carried out during last year a total of 129 actions that resulted in the withdrawal of a total of 691 items that Deficiencies by failing to comply with the regulations in force.
The inspections served to eliminate as many of the non-compliant units from the market as possible and could pose a risk of any kind to the health and safety of consumers and users.
The Edil de Consumo has pointed out that the products withdrawn were, for the most part, toys (290) as was the case of dolls, floats, water guns and fruit cubes.
There are childcare articles (160) such as rib cribs, furs and baby carriers.
Toy items follow.
The list continues with various electrical equipment (139), such as differential switches, night lights, adapters, bushes, grills, transformers, insect lamps.
Other immobilized elements have been set of candles (6), effervescent soap (18) and hot water bags (35).
In most cases, the elements presented risks of electric shock, suffocation and obstruction of the airways
As a case in point, mention should be made of the withdrawal of 40 units of tattoo paints that presented microbiological risk.
Ruiz Jódar explained that these actions have aimed to provide information to retailers about the existence of a national alert in reference to certain articles, as well as to transfer the regulatory regulation of the area of ​​Consumption to both commercial establishments as consumers and end users.
The inspections have been carried out:
Officio (15) to verify compliance by commercial and commercial establishments with the consumer and user protection regulations.
At the request of the Municipal Office of Consumer Information (37) for the filing of a complaint by a user to verify the reality and virtuality of the same, so that the respondent, if so proven, modify their irregular behavior and urging submission Of Consumer Arbitration, in any case.
For the precautionary immobilization of allegedly non-compliant products and their subsequent submission to the reference laboratory for the determination of their non-conformity and the creation of the corresponding alert network (2).
To check notifications of alert networks (75) for the nonconformity of certain products put up for sale.
They were withdrawn from marketing, as they violated the right to safety and health of consumers and users.
All this, under the state rapid exchange of information system, integrated into the European alert system (RAPEX), in order to facilitate rapid communication and exchange of information on those actions that are adopted in case of serious risk.
The responsibility of the coordination of this Network is the Spanish Agency of Consumption, Food Security and Nutrition (AECOSAN), in which the National Institute of Consumption is integrated.
Of the 75 inspectorate actions derived from alert networks, 26 of them have concluded with the return of units of the alert product.
It should be noted that if the inspected establishment is, in turn, distributor of the retail trade, it must provide a list of customers to whom it has marketed the product, with its number and registered address, a copy of the communication model sent to said customers informing The disconformity of the product and, finally, if there are returns, an invoice must be provided to credit the returned products.
The Councilor for Consumer Affairs has explained that today there are level alerts on different items such as a strip of 3 plugs, costumes and articles of toys, among others, that any citizens interested in the subject can consult simply by accessing the web http: //www.sanidadyconsumo.lorca.es/alertas.asp
EU, Government of Spain, Autonomous Communities and Town Councils defend the consumer
Ruiz Jódar has indicated that one of the substantial rights of consumers, among others, is the one related to the right to health and safety, and in this sense we are protected by Article 11 of the consolidated text of the General Law for the Defense of Consumers and Users.
The principle of the free movement of goods is one of the four constitutional freedoms of the internal market and its implementation with the abolition of the intra-Community borders of the EU countries has led to a great proliferation in the supply of goods and services in the Markets, with greater diversity and complexity, a task which the competent authorities have to face.
This situation is compounded by those products which also appear on the market and come from third countries.
However, this principle of free movement has certain limitations.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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