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Dangerous Products

Goods can not be circulated if its essential character isn’t squarely apparent, thereby creating a danger to consumer’s health and safety.
This restriction applies to products which are:

Not considered as a food, and on the basis of their external appearance (shape, size, odor, color), as well as packaging and labeling they are suitable to the consumer, especially to minors to mistake the goods for food.
Are considered as a food, and on the basis of their external appearance (shape, size, odor, color), as well as packaging and labeling they are similar to dangerous goods or to goods becoming dangerous with the ingestion and swallow of them so they are suitable to consumers, especially to minors to mistake this food for the really dangerous goods or for goods becoming dangerous with the ingestion and swallow of them.
Distributors and manufacturers are obliged to inform the competent authorities, if they know that products circulated by them are dangerous to consumers.
 

The food safety requirements

Food safety means during the procedure of production, manufacture, storage, and marketing to ensure that it does not endanger the health of the ultimate consumer.
The consumers notice at first the packaging of the food.

The main functions of packaging, properties:

• To protect the food from impurities, other effects, what can reduce the safety, quality, nutritional value of it.
• The packaging can’t be a danger to the consumer’s health
• The packaging shall be suitable for reuse, waste recovery and in case of it’s disposal it’s environmental pollutant affect should be as low as possible
• The packaging’s requirement that without of its undoing the food can’t not be changed.
• On the package of the circulated food, markings required to inform consumers shall be signed in hungarian, understandably, legibly, which are the followings:
• The name of the food,
• A list of ingredients,
• The quantity of certain ingredients or ingredient groups,
• In case of prepackaged food the net quantity of it
• The expiry date of durability of the food and the same date of foods, which are persihable from the microbiological point of view.
• Special use and storage conditions required o the preservation of quality
• The name or business name and address of the food producer or the distributor located in one of the state of European Economic Space
• The origin or place of origin, if the lack of it may decieve the consumer about the real origin of the food
• User's Guide , if in the lack of it the consumer couldn't use the food properly.

Safety prescriptions for toys

This also applies to games that only safe products can be marketed. Manufacturers, importers shall make sure of safe usage of the toy, and they shall proove this fact with a signature of quality certification (CE Mark), and provide User's guide to the products.
 

Key safety requirements:

• A game will be marketed, if it's intended and predictable usage taken into account the average behavior of children, doesn't endanger the safety and health of the consumers, users and third people, and meets the following safety requirements:
• In case of intended and predictable usage of the game, the protection of health and physical integrity of the game's users and third parties, shall be ensured in contrast to dangers and risks.
   

Safety prescrpitions for technological products

The most important requirement is that the technological product shall be safe, so the marketed products can't be a danger to health, physical integrity, life and environment.
The general product safety requirements also applies to technological products, so these products must also been provided with the CE mark, which certifies compliance.
The general contingencies, which occur most frequently:

• Injuries from the touch of parts under tension
• Injuries due to overheating,
• Injuries from any other effects, for example hot steam
• Dangers from faulty dielectrics.

The electrical devices like any other device shall be maintained from time to time, in any case it should be carried out according to the user manual, if we don't entrust this task to a specialist!