LoginMatt Allwright: Product Safety
Matt asks what happened to all the progress we made just a few decades ago
Posted 15 January 2018 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Opinion|Consumer Goods and Services|National
OPINION: Broadcaster Matt Allwright argues that decades of progress in product safety are being undermined by unsafe imports, weak enforcement and online marketplaces, calling for renewed action to protect consumers.
It seems crazy where we are right now with product safety. If you can bear to, let’s revisit the horrific Manchester Woolworths fire of 1979, in which 10 people died when polyurethane sofas caught alight. After that, everything changed. Furniture became flame retardant and shops took bars off their windows. Then Lynn Faulds Wood’s fantastic work convinced me that things really would get better:...
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