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A new report highlights jetpacks and human implants as areas of potential harm
Posted 09 January 2025 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Product Safety|National
UPDATES: OPSS’s first Horizon Scan places jetpacks and human implant technology among the emerging developments with the greatest potential consumer risk. The report also highlights online marketplaces, social commerce and fast-changing supply chains as areas where regulation and market surveillance will need to keep pace.
Jetpacks and human implant technology have been identified as the two emerging and future technologies that present the greatest potential risk to consumers in a new report by the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS).
The findings were published in OPSS’s first ‘Horizon Scan’, a research report examining emerging technological changes that have implications for product safety an...
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