Consumer product conformity assessment practices differ significantly between the EU Single Market and the US. TIC Council has conducted multiple studies in the EU that demonstrate notably high levels of non-conformities. In occasion of the International Product Safety Week, we are happy to release the TIC Council’s Market Study in the United States 2023.
This study seeks to provide additional context by evaluating the level of consumer product conformity in the US, specifically, assessing the prevalence of non-conformities among three product categories regularly available on e-commerce platforms:
The results of this study demonstrate that pre-market conformity assessment practices in the US very likely reduce the frequency of product non-conformities, as compared to the EU. Nonetheless, our results also suggest that legal and regulatory gaps in the US have contributed to relatively high levels of product non-conformities on e-commerce platforms when measured against brick-and-mortar retailers.
Read the Market Study here.