The EU's role in our consumer safety
19 Mar 2016
Thanks to the EU, we in the UK benefit from:
- the ability to buy quality goods at reasonable prices, due to consumer protection measures and benefits of standardisation
- safety standards for goods and services, including for the toys that our children play with, and a mechanism for acting swiftly when products are found to be dangerous or faulty
- safer food, through monitoring of the full lifecycle of food production and supply
- safe, well-studied medicines
- controlled use of chemicals in manufacturing and in the environment.
Source:
"What does the EU mean for us, shoppers and consumers", http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/what-does-the-eu-mean-for-us-shoppers-and-consumers-pbIK0213746/
