EU SafetyGate Report 2023
| Last Updated | Latest Week |
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| 26/08/2024 | week 34 |
The EU Safety Gate project Link to heading
About this Project Link to heading
I first encountered the EU Safety Gate in my previous role.
Since 2003, the Safety Gate has enabled a quick exchange of information among EU/EEA Member States and the European Commission about dangerous non-food products posing a risk to the health and safety of consumers. Appropriate follow-up has to be taken by the national authorities so that the notified dangerous products are removed from the market.
To facilitate the transmission of information to the public, the Commission also manages the Safety Gate public Website.
The alerts are translated into all EU languages, in addition to Icelandic, Norwegian, Arabic, and Ukrainian. Businesses also have at their disposal the Business Safety Gateway to inform national authorities quickly and efficiently about safety concerns regarding a product that they have put on the market.
This tool will become compulsory under the General Product Safety Regulation.
It is an interesting look into the world of dangerous and non compliant products that are sold across the world, but specifically relates to the European Union.
Why this analysis? Link to heading
- Having encountered the data in a previous role, I was curious how each country approaches their safety recalls (Do they act on compulsory or voluntary motivation?)
- Country level analysis is not available for the EU Safety Gate Data (I couldn’t find any, it may exist), while there is an annual summary report, it’s a bit scant on details!
- I’m interested in the idea of low CO2 dashboards - which are dashboards with pre rendered visualisations, reducing cloud processing energy and cost requirements.
Project README.md Link to heading
Analysts Notes Link to heading
- EU Safety Gate Meta Data Overview
- EU Safety Gate Feature Engineering
- EU Safety Gate Visualisations Plan
Safety Gate Summary Analysis Link to heading
This report provides a comprehensive overview of safety alerts issued by the European Union for non-food products throughout the year. This report highlights the most notable data and trends, including significant increases or decreases in alerts, common types of hazards, and categories of products most frequently flagged. It aims to give readers a clear and concise understanding of the key safety concerns and regulatory actions taken within the year.
Safety Gate Visualisations Report Analysis Link to heading
This Report compiles a detailed collection of visualisations depicting the safety alerts issued for non-food products by the European Union. Featuring around 1,100 meticulously crafted matplotlib plots, this report offers an in-depth visual analysis of the total alerts, allowing readers to easily interpret complex data trends, hazard types, and affected product categories. It serves as a valuable resource for those seeking to understand the broader patterns and specifics of safety alerts through a graphical representation.
- Safety Gate Detailed Summary for entire 2023 dataset
- Safety Gate Detailed Summary for entire 2024 dataset
Safety Gate Compare Countries 2023 Link to heading
Safety Gate Compare Countries 2024 Link to heading
Country of Origin Report 2023 Link to heading
A detailed analysis with extensive visualisations of all key features of the data.
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| China | France | India | Italy |
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| Japan | Netherlands | Poland | Spain |
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| Sweden | Taiwan | Turkey | UK |
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| USA | Unknown | Other (not top15) |
Country of Origin Report 2024 Link to heading
A detailed analysis with extensive visualisations of all key features of the data.
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| China | France | India | Italy |
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| USA | Unknown | Other (not top15) |
My Analysis Link to heading
This analysis report aims to address the lack of summary and country level data with a comprehensive set of visualisations of the key features of the Safety Gate Data by country and country comparison.
Extensive feature engineering was carried out in order to produce meaningful and clear visualisations.
This was a great opportunity for me to flex my DA & visualisations skills with a secondary goal to recreate some of the visualisations from the ‘official’ report using Python, Pandas and Matplotlib.
A good example of programmatic recreations are the country level top 3 visualisations showing the top 3 product categories and top 3 risks, in the official report and the geoplot, showing 2022 vs 2023 how many alerts were issued by each country.
Inspiration :
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About the EU Safety Gate Rapid Alert System Link to heading
The Safety Gate rapid alert system plays an important role enabling swift and effective action to be taken across the single European market when a dangerous product is found.
Exchange of information on dangerous non-food products kicked off informally in 2001. It became compulsory in 2002 under the General Product Safety Directive which set up the rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products. In December 2024, the General Product Safety Regulation will replace the Directive and the rapid alert system will officially be renamed Safety Gate.
EU Safety Gate is The data in this report and is based on information from national authorities on measures taken against dangerous non-food products.
Data has been sourced from Safety Gate Website.
This information includes various risks that they have identified, mainly to consumers’ health and safety but also to the environment or risks in relation to professional products (i.e. products not normally available to consumers). The report also takes into account data related to information exchanged among member countries that is not published on the Safety Gate Website. The report presents statistics on the rapid alert system. It does not purport to give a comprehensive picture of all dangerous products on the single market, nor does it give an overview of all market surveillance efforts undertaken by the EU/EEA national authorities. Due to the dynamic nature of the system, the data may vary depending on the time of extraction.
Creative Commons License Link to heading
The reuse policy of European Commission documents is implemented by the Commission Decision 2011/833/EU of 12 December 2011 on the reuse of Commission documents (OJ L 330, 14.12.2011, p. 39). Except otherwise noted, the reuse of this document is authorised under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) licence.
This means that reuse is allowed provided appropriate credit is given and any changes are indicated.
Since this entire analysis is based on data from the EU, and I have used visualisations from the official annual summary as inspiration for the programmatically created version of these visualisations, the creative commons license applies this work hosted on rodders.me, this means that reuse of this analysis and it’s visualisations is allowed provided appropriate credit is given and any changes are indicated.