I don’t think there’s a story that encapsulates the state of the UK better than an out of town superstore not issuing a recall for a product designed for children that’s filled with asbestos.
“As a precaution, we have voluntarily removed the product from sale while we carry out independent testing … We will update customers as soon as we are in a position to do so.”
Sounds like they’re just waiting to confirm if there’s actually a problem, rather than issuing a full-scale product recall based on a single test result reported by a random member of the public.
Maybe or it could be worse than that:
The so-called “precautionary principle”, abolished when product safety legislation was redrafted after Brexit, allowed the government to restrict products thought to pose a serious threat to health, without having to acquire scientific evidence.
So they can’t be required to recall unless regulators have both a confirming test result and they prove asbestos sand harms kids. I don’t know if that’s proven to legal standard, even if we think it very likely. Do you? More importantly, does an officer in Borsetshire Council Trading Standards know?
Thank you Brexiters, yet again 🤦
Well you don’t want children dying in a sandbox fire.
Fill them full of sick 'cause someone’s got to eat it…
