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Let us snitch on unsafe goods

It is very common nowadays to hear about consumer goods being recalled! It happens every so often. Not a long time ago we were bombarded with red grape liqui-fruit recall, then baked beans and before you could say ah, there is an ongoing one, right here, the Nestle Kit Kat chocolates are under recall.

In and around us there are many more products that are being recalled from the shelves. A recall in one market affects many more markets. Every consumable product you can think of, from children’s toys, life threatening materials such as car ignition coils, medicines, food items and up to benign materials such as container lids can be recalled.

Most product recalls are voluntary and they happen when industry takes a responsible and proactive step to put the safety of consumers ahead of profit. This invariably happens when products do not meet the safety or health standards or the products are dangerously defective that they could injure or endanger the lives of users. When industry become aware of certain defects on their products and they are convinced that these could compromise the lives of consumers a recall is generally triggered.

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