{"id":612,"date":"2018-01-10T09:34:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T13:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/f2labs.com\/technotes\/?p=612"},"modified":"2019-05-08T11:44:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T15:44:04","slug":"eus-rapid-alert-system-for-dangerous-non-food-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/f2labs.com\/technotes\/2018\/01\/10\/eus-rapid-alert-system-for-dangerous-non-food-products\/","title":{"rendered":"EU’s Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products"},"content":{"rendered":"

The EU has a direct conduit for market surveillance authorities to communicate information about non-compliant products directly between 31 EU member nations and the European Commission.<\/p>\n

This system is called the Rapid Alert System, or RAPEX.<\/a><\/p>\n

This is not where you want your products to show up after a web search, see below.<\/p>\n

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This site, published and continuously updated by the EU Commission, highlights and posts non-compliant products. These are products that were stopped in customs, started a fire, broke and proved unsafe, or were questioned and subsequently found to be non-compliant after further review.<\/p>\n

Below is an example of a product that was stopped in Germany and then submitted to RAPEX.<\/p>\n

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Below is another.<\/p>\n

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The way to avoid this is by determining which EU laws apply to your equipment and then making sure that the product complies.<\/p>\n

F2 Labs<\/a>\u00a0is here to help.<\/p>\n

Have a question or a comment? We can be contacted via this\u00a0link<\/a>.\u00a0We can be reached by phone at 877-405-1580 and are here to help you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The EU has a direct conduit for market surveillance authorities to communicate information about non-compliant products directly between 31 EU member nations and the European Commission. This system is called the Rapid Alert System, or RAPEX. This is not where … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,215,5,172,124,80,167,2,3,97,96,7,79,94,6],"tags":[9,141,10,225,226,227,107,223,224],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atex-directive-201434eu","category-ce-marking","category-consulting","category-emc-directive-201430eu","category-en-60601-1","category-general-product-safety-directive-200195ec","category-ip-testing","category-lasers","category-low-voltage-directive-201435eu","category-machinery-directive-200642ec","category-medical-devices-directive-9342eec","category-ppe-regulation-eu-2016425","category-pressure-equipment-directive-201468eu","category-product-testing","category-radio-equipment-directive-201453eu","category-rohs-directive-201165eu","tag-ce","tag-ce-mark","tag-ce-marking","tag-eu-consumer-protection","tag-eu-market-surveillance","tag-european-commission","tag-european-compliance","tag-rapex","tag-rapid-alert-system"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/f2labs.com\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/f2labs.com\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/f2labs.com\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f2labs.com\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f2labs.com\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/f2labs.com\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/f2labs.com\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/f2labs.com\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f2labs.com\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f2labs.com\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}