Consumer products affecting young children’s safety and infant sleep products are among the ACCC’s product safety priorities during 2023-24, ACCC Deputy Chair Catriona Lowe announced today.
As of 27 March, 2023, the majority of new voluntary recalls of consumer goods regulated by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority will no longer also be published by the ACCC on the Product Safety Australia website.
More than 15,000 potentially unsafe products were delisted by online marketplaces signed up to the ACCC’s Australian Product Safety Pledge last financial year, with 98 per cent of regulator-initiated take down requests actioned within 2 days.
As of 31 January, 2023, the majority of new voluntary recalls of therapeutic consumer goods will no longer also be published by the ACCC on the Product Safety Australia website.
The ACCC is co-leading this year’s OECD Global Awareness Campaign on Online Product Safety. The campaign launches worldwide during International Consumer Product Safety Week 14-17 November 2022.
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The ACCC is making a change to the types of recalls that we publish on the Product Safety Australia website. Going forward we will only publish recalls for consumer products that the ACCC is responsible for regulating.
