- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Theoretical Aspects of Regulation
- 2 Introduction
- 3 The Limits on the Community's Jurisdictional Competence in Product Safety Legislation
- 4 Medicinal Products
- 5 New Approach Products
- 6 Biocides, Cosmetics, Tobacco, and General Consumer Products
- 7 Introduction
- 8 Pre-market Assessment: Authorization to Market
- 9 Control of the Manufacturing Environment and Process
- 10 Providing Information
- 11 Producers' Post-marketing Obligations
- 12 The Role of Authorities in Post-marketing Safety
- 13 Control of Distribution
- 14 Obligations on Users
- 15 Conclusions on Safety Mechanisms
- 16 Introduction
- 17 The Community Institutions Involved and their Mechanisms of Governance
- 18 Safety and Risk
- 19 Conclusions
- Appendix 1: The Pharmacovigilance System
- Appendix 2: Statistics on the Safety of General Consumer Products
- Appendix 3: Statistics on the Safety of Medicinal Products
- Appendix 4: Statistics on the Safety of Electrical Products
- Appendix 5: Modules for Conformity Assessment Procedures Under the New Approach
- Bibliography
- UK Government Publication
- Index
Providing Information
Providing Information
- Chapter:
- (p.117) 10 Providing Information
- Source:
- European Regulation of Consumer Product Safety
- Author(s):
Christopher Hodges
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Ensuring that consumers have sufficient and adequate information on the safety of the products that they use, so as to be able to avoid known hazards, has long been recognized as a central function of regulation. This text analyses that which category of people has the best opportunity to prevent particular accidents: designers, makers, distributors, or users. Research demonstrates that instructions and warnings are almost always much less effective as preventive measures than design changes. Market theory argues that information on safe use should be provided to users since the availability of information is otherwise shared asymmetrically. It is, however, the user who has to observe and apply the information given. Communication of information from producer to consumer signifies, in non-legal terms, the transfer of responsibility for risk.
Keywords: hazards, regulation, designers, makers, distributors, users
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Theoretical Aspects of Regulation
- 2 Introduction
- 3 The Limits on the Community's Jurisdictional Competence in Product Safety Legislation
- 4 Medicinal Products
- 5 New Approach Products
- 6 Biocides, Cosmetics, Tobacco, and General Consumer Products
- 7 Introduction
- 8 Pre-market Assessment: Authorization to Market
- 9 Control of the Manufacturing Environment and Process
- 10 Providing Information
- 11 Producers' Post-marketing Obligations
- 12 The Role of Authorities in Post-marketing Safety
- 13 Control of Distribution
- 14 Obligations on Users
- 15 Conclusions on Safety Mechanisms
- 16 Introduction
- 17 The Community Institutions Involved and their Mechanisms of Governance
- 18 Safety and Risk
- 19 Conclusions
- Appendix 1: The Pharmacovigilance System
- Appendix 2: Statistics on the Safety of General Consumer Products
- Appendix 3: Statistics on the Safety of Medicinal Products
- Appendix 4: Statistics on the Safety of Electrical Products
- Appendix 5: Modules for Conformity Assessment Procedures Under the New Approach
- Bibliography
- UK Government Publication
- Index
