For the European Commission to adopt regulations for warning labels to be placed on products that explain the hazard in addition to identifying it.
For the European Commission to adopt a mandatory standard to lower the minimum force that is required to open a lid or door to a sealed container.
For the European Commission to ban latex balloons, inedibles in food products and drawstrings on clothing.
For the European Commission to adopt a mandatory standard for bunk beds to address entrapment hazards. The standard would restrict opening sizes, require guardrails and specify company identification and age-specific warning labels to be present on all new bunk beds.
For the European Commission to adopt European Playground Standards for all Member States as currently only some Member States have adopted this standard.
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For the European Commission to support an educational campaign to the public regarding safety practices to prevent choking and strangulation injuries in children.
For the European Commission to establish a European product safety commission to provide a hotline for consumers to report unsafe products, have data collected and each call followed-up for potential recall, and a clearinghouse of child product safety information for consumers.
For the European Commission and Member States to support a Europe-wide surveillance system for injury data related to product involvement on a population level that is accessible online and updated monthly.
This information has been taken from the Fact sheet on Child choking, Strangulation and Suffocation published by the Alliance in October 2006. This fact sheet including the references to the information above is available here.
