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EU Safety Gate alerts for China-made products · 2026-03

2026-03: 149 of 270 EU Safety Gate consumer alerts (55.2%) were for products made in China.

Coverage: 2026-03 – 2026-03 · Extracted: · Latest report: 2026-10-16

Unknown origin: 32 of 270 alerts (11.9%). Hong Kong: 2, reported separately.

The current month is partial. Safety Gate covers participating EU and EEA countries. Alerts include recalls and other measures; they are not a recall rate or a representative sample of imports.

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China-origin alerts by category

  • Toys: 53
  • Electrical appliances and equipment: 22
  • Lighting chains: 16
  • Pyrotechnic articles: 8
  • Childcare articles and children's equipment: 7
  • Lighting equipment: 7
  • Machinery: 7
  • Jewellery: 6
  • Clothing, textiles and fashion items: 5
  • Kitchen/cooking accessories: 5
  • Motor vehicles: 3
  • Communication and media equipment: 2
  • Hand tools: 2
  • Hobby/sports equipment: 2
  • Protective equipment: 2
  • Construction products: 1
  • Stationery: 1

China-origin hazards

  • Chemical: 36
  • Electric shock: 32
  • Choking / asphyxiation: 28
  • Injuries / cuts: 27
  • Fire: 26
  • Burns: 18
  • Other / unclassified: 11
  • Entrapment: 3
  • Strangulation: 3
  • Microbiological: 1
  • Suffocation: 1

Named regulations and standards

  • Low Voltage Directive: 43
  • Toy Safety Directive: 43
  • EN 71-1: 16
  • EN 60598: 15
  • REACH Regulation: 15
  • General Product Safety Regulation: 14
  • EN 15947: 8
  • Pyrotechnics Directive: 8
  • Machinery Directive: 7
  • Directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS 2 Directive): 5
  • EN 60335-1: 3
  • EN 606598: 3
  • EN 60825-1: 3
  • EN 62115: 3
  • Regulation on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles and their trailers, and of systems, components and separate technical units intended for such vehicles: 3
  • EN 1273: 2
  • EN 1677-1: 2
  • EN 20471: 2
  • EN 60335-2: 2
  • EN 818-1: 2
  • EN 818-2: 2
  • EN 818-4: 2
  • Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Regulation: 2
  • Construction Products Regulation: 1
  • Cosmetic Products Regulation, and does not meet the requirements of the Toy Safety Directive: 1
  • Directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS2 Directive): 1
  • EN 1400: 1
  • EN 14344: 1
  • EN 14604: 1
  • EN 60335: 1
  • EN 60335-2-15: 1
  • EN 60884-1: 1
  • EN 62133-2: 1
  • EN 62368-1: 1
  • EN 71-3: 1
  • EN 71-8: 1
  • General Product Safety Regulation not with the REACH Regulation: 1
  • General Product Safety Regulation,: 1
  • Low Voltage Directive,: 1
  • Machinery Directive, the Low Voltage Directive: 1
  • Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP) Regulation: 1
  • Radio Equipment Directive (RED): 1

Source product names and legal titles remain in English.

China-origin alerts

Hong Kong-origin alerts (separate)

  • SR/00676/26 · Soft toy · Ma peluche à habiller

    Report date: · Report week: 2026-09 · Toys

    Injuries / cuts · Risk level: Serious risk

    Notifying country: France · Withdrawal of the product from the market · UnknownType of economic operator taking notified measure(s): DistributorCategory of measure(s): Recall of the product from end users · 31/10/2025

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  • SR/00687/26 · Necklace · snake chain necklace with silver plating

    Report date: · Report week: 2026-10 · Jewellery

    Chemical · Risk level: Serious risk

    Notifying country: Germany · Warning consumers of the risks · 24/02/2026Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): ImporterCategory of measure(s): Stop of sales · 24/02/2026Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): ImporterCategory of measure(s): Removal of this product listing by the online marketplace · 24/02/2026

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Method and limitations

We fetch the English weekly XML reports for the last 24 calendar months, including the current partial month. Dates are report publication dates, not measure dates. Cases are deduplicated by case number: the latest report wins, with addenda taking priority on the same date. Revised cases are assigned to that latest report month. Explicit withdrawals in report addenda are excluded, including cases no longer present in the report body. Explicit Professional or Non-consumer types are excluded; missing or other type values are retained. Origin uses countryOfOrigin, never notifyingCountry. China, PRC and People’s Republic of China are normalised to China; Hong Kong stays separate; missing and unknown origins remain unknown. Denominators include all origins. Hazards use the existing deterministic keyword classifier on the danger text only, masking the verb phrases “lead to”, “leads to” and “leading to” so they are not counted as lead metal. Other means no mapped hazard was identified; source risk types remain in the CSV. Multiple hazards and risk types can apply to a case, so their totals may exceed alert counts. Legal and standard names are extracted only where named. Category wording is retained from Safety Gate, with a separate mapping to UK guide categories for factory checks. No judgement is made about a brand or seller. Source alerts can be revised or withdrawn; this extract is not a live safety clearance.

Explicit non-consumer cases excluded in this period: 11.

Withdrawn cases identified in report addenda in this period: 1 (excluded; a withdrawn case may already be absent from the XML body).

Safety Gate XML · data.europa.eu · CC0 · 2011/833/EU

CCB normalises origins, deduplicates cases, classifies hazards and aggregates counts. No Commission endorsement is implied. The Commission is not liable for consequences of reuse.

Source: European Commission, Safety Gate, English XML (en), extracted 2026-10-19. XML distribution: CC0. Cambridge China Bridge analysis.

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