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A product recall – what does that mean?

Almost everyone is familiar with the term “recall” – most people know what it means and many have already been affected themselves. But what exactly is that? In principle, every company that launches any products on the market also has a responsibility to ensure that users or third parties are not put at risk. And…

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Recall costs as a result of the GPSR

“Product recalls are becoming so expensive thanks to the new Product Safety Regulation that every single one could mean our bankruptcy!” – But is that really the case? Regulation (EU) 2023/988 has been in force since 06/2023 Regulation (EU) 2023/988 (“General Product Safety Regulation – “GSPR”) has been in force since 06/2023 and must be…

Article in the Legal Layman – “A product recall – what does it mean?”
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Article in the Legal Layman – “A product recall – what does it mean?”

A product recall – what does that mean? Almost everyone is familiar with the term “recall” – most people know what it means and many have already been affected themselves. But what exactly is that? In principle, every company that launches any products on the market also has a responsibility to ensure that users or…

Product safety regulation leads to significantly higher costs!?

“Product recalls are becoming so expensive thanks to the new product safety regulation that each one could mean our bankruptcy!”

This assessment is currently increasingly encountered in exchanges with colleagues from the industry or in research on the Internet. But are the innovations of the Product Safety Regulation (EU) 2023/988 really so drastic?

our panel of experts
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our panel of experts

The importance of informal exchange in training – our expert panel What ensures learning success in training and workshops? A competent and experienced trainer is undoubtedly an important factor to consolidate knowledge during a training. But what else can help participants better internalize what they have learned? In this blog post, we would like to…

Case study from practice – Why we took over the complete CoP for a vehicle manufacturer for one year
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Case study from practice – Why we took over the complete CoP for a vehicle manufacturer for one year

Due to many restructurings in a short period of time, the CoP division lost its entire team. Since CoP (Conformity of Production) is a legal requirement and gaps in the evidence can have fatal consequences – even many years, even decades later, the person responsible for CoP contacted us with a request for support.

Case study from practice – Why a manufacturer voluntarily recalled a product
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Case study from practice – Why a manufacturer voluntarily recalled a product

What happened? It was about components on trucks. Through structured market surveillance, a customer had discovered that there were defects in a competitor’s product that led to accidents. Our customer then transferred this error pattern to his own product and checked whether it would also be conceivable for him. Via a well-founded risk assessment, he…

Case study from practice – Averting an ordered recall? Even authorities make mistakes!
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Case study from practice – Averting an ordered recall? Even authorities make mistakes!

The market surveillance authority was already involved and a recall was ordered because a supposed product defect was revealed in an accident.
Under the correct state of the law, no recall should have been ordered at all.
If we had not discovered this error, the company would have had to carry out an expensive and time-consuming recall, which was not “legal” at all. We were able to avert the recall!

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