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Consumers could be exposing themselves to food-related risks, as they experience a lack of safe use instructions for food containers and kitchenware. Many continue to use worn or damaged food containers and kitchenware for some time, as an 11-country survey about people’s attitudes, needs, and concerns regarding ‘food contact materials’ [A] underlines. As a result, BEUC is calling for proper regulation of these materials.
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Following a complaint by BEUC and its members against Nintendo for premature obsolescence, the company has committed to lifelong free repairs of Nintendo Switch game consoles suffering from ‘Joy Con Drift’.
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The Consumer Package published today by the European Commission will seek to better protect consumers from rampant greenwashing and give them new rights to use their products longer.
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According to new statistics, 2,117 notifications were made to Safety Gate – the EU’s rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products – in 2022.
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