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UK needs product-safety framework more responsive to emerging tech, minister insists

By Jakub Krupa and Frank Hersey ( October 17, 2024, 04:59 GMT | Insight) -- Product and online marketplace safety rules in the UK need a new framework post-Brexit that gives officials more flexibility to respond to emerging risks, a minister has argued as he defended a proposed overhaul of the legal framework. A separate consultation launched recently by the office responsible for product safety has started looking to more direct alignment with changes in the EU in some cases.The emergence of online marketplaces, lithium batteries in e-bikes and other new product risks and technologies such as AI make updating post-Brexit UK product safety legislation more urgent, minister and officials told lawmakers yesterday as they defended broad powers proposed in a new draft law....

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