Dispatches
A hospital fire reveals how individually governed systems can create combined safety conditions. What Turku teaches us about Product Integrity, evidence, system interaction and the revised EU Product Liability Directive.
A legacy recall still in service, certified safety footwear failing market checks, and a new cyber reporting clock all expose the same weakness: controls must continue to work.
EU-27 implementation of Directive (EU) 2024/2853 is moving further into formal legislative machinery. September status: 3 adopted/notified, 7 parliamentary/draft, 11 pipeline active, and 6 with no public legislative step identified.
Products now move globally with extraordinary ease. Consumer protection does not. This article examines what that gap means for families, governments, businesses and the people quietly working to make product safety real.
The internal translation layer: where product safety signals become organisational decisions
Public product safety data reveals formal action, but not every weak signal, unresolved investigation or hidden risk that preceded it.
Before a public alert appears, organisations must detect, interpret, escalate and classify emerging product safety signals. This article examines how that journey works across the EU, Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Product safety systems were built to detect danger early. The harder question now is whether they can still see clearly enough.