In the first ten months of 2007 the European Commission received 56 per cent more consumer safety alerts from EU member.

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In the first ten months of 2007 the European Commission received 56 per cent more consumer safety alerts from EU member states than it did over the same period in 2006.

Research by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and lpsos Mori recently found that, of those firms that had faced a product safety problem, 45 per cent reported damage to reputation and/or customer loyalty, while a third reported a financial loss. More than a third admitted that they would struggle to...

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