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EU Safety Gate alerts for China-made products · 2026-08

2026-08: 160 of 230 EU Safety Gate consumer alerts (69.6%) were for products made in China.

Coverage: 2026-08 – 2026-08 · Extracted: · Latest report: 2026-10-16

Unknown origin: 13 of 230 alerts (5.7%). Hong Kong: 3, 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: 54
  • Electrical appliances and equipment: 44
  • Lighting chains: 11
  • Protective equipment: 10
  • Clothing, textiles and fashion items: 7
  • Chemical products: 5
  • Childcare articles and children's equipment: 4
  • Gadgets: 4
  • Machinery: 4
  • Cosmetics: 3
  • Jewellery: 3
  • Pyrotechnic articles: 3
  • Communication and media equipment: 2
  • Kitchen/cooking accessories: 2
  • Decorative articles: 1
  • Furniture: 1
  • Hobby/sports equipment: 1
  • Lighting equipment: 1

China-origin hazards

  • Chemical: 53
  • Choking / asphyxiation: 35
  • Electric shock: 29
  • Other / unclassified: 25
  • Injuries / cuts: 16
  • Fire: 10
  • Burns: 7
  • Strangulation: 5
  • Entrapment: 4

Named regulations and standards

  • Toy Safety Directive: 50
  • EN 71-1: 31
  • Low Voltage Directive: 30
  • REACH Regulation: 21
  • Directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS 2 Directive): 16
  • EN 60598-1: 13
  • General Product Safety Regulation: 12
  • EN 60598-2-20: 11
  • EN 12312-2: 7
  • EN 18526-2: 7
  • EN 71-12: 6
  • Personal Protective Equipment Regulation: 5
  • EN 14682: 4
  • EN 62115: 4
  • Machinery Directive: 4
  • Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Regulation: 4
  • Commission Directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS Directive): 3
  • Cosmetic Products Regulation: 3
  • EN 15947-5: 3
  • EN 60335-1: 3
  • Pyrotechnics Directive: 3
  • Regulation on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP): 3
  • Directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS2 Directive): 2
  • EN 1400: 2
  • EN 1494: 2
  • EN 60335-2: 2
  • EN 62133-2: 2
  • Regulation on the classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP): 2
  • EN 16732: 1
  • EN 581-1: 1
  • EN 581-2: 1
  • EN 60598-2-11: 1
  • EN 60898: 1
  • EN 62368-1: 1
  • EN 71-10: 1
  • EN 71-11: 1
  • EN 71-3: 1
  • Low Voltage Directive and the relevant European standards EN 60598-1: 1
  • Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP) Regulation: 1
  • Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP) Regulation nor with the requirements of the Directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS 2 Directive): 1
  • REACH Regulation,: 1

Source product names and legal titles remain in English.

China-origin alerts

Hong Kong-origin alerts (separate)

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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: 8.

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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