Product safety: General Product Safety Regulations
For all other products not covered by a specific regulation, there is a set of catch-all General Product Safety Regulations.
Their purpose is to impose a duty on everyone in the supply chain to ensure that products they handle do not pose a danger to health and safety when used in a reasonable, foreseeable way and subject to normal wear and tear.
Sometimes inherent risks exist - in candles, for example - and in such cases there is a duty on producers to provide adequate warnings to consumers about such dangers and advise on safe use.
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