Most inspected products sold online do not comply with EU chemicals law

Safer Chemicals Podcast

This episode covers an EU-wide project where national authorities inspected nearly 6 000 products sold online in the EU and EEA. The project looked at different webshops and online marketplaces and whether they followed the rules set by EU chemicals legislation.

The inspections covered both professional products such as lead used for welding and consumer goods like textiles, leather, toys, and jewellery.

The project found that most of the inspected products did not comply with the law.

Join us for a deeper look into the findings and what needs to change for the low level of compliance to improve.

You will also get tips for buying products online and what steps you can take to ensure the products meet legal requirements and can be used safely.

Our guests are Karin Rumar, from the Swedish Chemicals Agency, also the Chair of the Working Group for the project, and Maciej Baranski, working in the Harmonised Enforcement Team in ECHA.
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Chapters

1. What were the main drivers for the project and why did you focus on online sales? (00:01:25)

2. What did the inspections check for and what were the main findings? (00:02:15)

3. What classification, labelling and packaging regulation requirements were checked and what were the main findings? (00:04:56)

https://echa.europa.eu/regulations/clp/understanding-clp

4. What was checked under the biocidal product regulation and what were the main findings? (00:05:40)

https://echa.europa.eu/regulations/biocidal-products-regulation/understanding-bpr

5. What is the difference between online marketplaces and web shops and how many were not complying? (00:06:54)

6. What penalties were applied to the stores that were not following the law? (00:07:59)

7. What were the main recommendations from the project? (00:08:38)

8. What do the recommendations mean in practice? (00:11:07)

9. What can be done in the short term to increase the level of compliance of online marketplaces and web shops? (00:13:40)

10. What can companies do to make sure the products they are selling meet legal obligations? (00:16:08)

11. Should consumers be worried when buying these products online? (00:17:09)

12. Chapter 12 (00:17:13)

13. How will the recommendations from the report be followed-up? (00:21:31)

14. Read the project report (00:23:02)

https://echa.europa.eu/-/majority-of-inspected-products-sold-online-breach-eu-chemicals-laws