Consumer group Which?, which produced the report, is now calling for urgent changes to the regime.
It has called on the government to develop a national body that can control dangerous situations and get products out of homes quickly.
In addition, it wants to see a single, reliable and well-publicised website – acting as a ‘one-stop-shop’ – created to provide authoritative information and advice when dangerous products are identified or recalls are required.
Peter Vicary-Smith, chief executive of Which?, said: “The product safety system simply isn’t fit-for-purpose and its over reliance on a local approach to a national problem poses grave risks to consumers.
“The government must now take urgent action and create a new national body that has all of the tools it needs to get unsafe products out of people’s homes.”
UK product safety system ‘isn’t fit for purpose’
The UK’s product safety and recall system is not fit-for-purpose and is potentially putting lives at risk, a report has warned.
