27 July 2011 by Joe Cicero. No Comments.
We sometimes get requests from companies asking us to remove their products from the Recalled Products website. These requests follow products being reclassified as fit for sale on the RAPEX website, the original EU-wide recalls resource from which our data is sourced. At first it seems to make sense to remove these products. After all, [...]
2 May 2011 by Dafydd Vaughan. 2 Comments.
Late last night all CF Labs sites were taken offline following a serious hardware failure at our remote hosting centre. Our supplier has worked to replace the faulty equipment and bring our services back online. This work was completed at around 2.15pm this afternoon. There are however a few outstanding issues with some of our websites: [...]
3 February 2011 by Dafydd Vaughan. 1 Comment.
Yesterday we released an updated website for publishing UK and European product recall notices. The changes we’ve made at RecalledProducts.org include a refreshed look, enhanced statistics and an improved recalls importer. The biggest change you’ll notice is the design of the site. It’s more of an evolution of the design than a brand new look [...]
3 March 2010 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
In our last update we talked about some of the new responsibilities we’ve inherited and what our plans were for the next few months. We wanted to give you all an update on what we’ve been up to since then and what we’ve still to do. Consumer Focus Corporate Website In October we announced that [...]
29 July 2009 by Joe Cicero. No Comments.
Just a quick heads up. Later today, the Product Recalls site will move to its own dedicated domain, recalledproducts.org. If you are a registered user, you don’t need to do anything at your end, but email alerts and RSS feeds will reflect the name change. The old domain should redirect all requests automatically.
15 July 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Following user feedback over the last few weeks, we’ve been working on a number of changes to the Product Recalls website. These changes were pushed out to the server yesterday, so let us know what you think. Categorisation This was a big request from the early users of the website and something we wanted to [...]
22 June 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. 5 Comments.
We’ve been talking for a while about the first project that we’ve been building, and today we’re pleased to be able to switch on the Product Recalls website. The issue of product recalls is a tricky one. Some companies publish notices in the national newspapers or display a poster in their shop window. Some of [...]
19 May 2009 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
As we mentioned in our last post, we’ve been busy working away on our first CF Labs project. We’re nearly there, and are gearing up for its launch. Late last week, we released an early beta version of the site to a number of people within Consumer Focus, and those signed up to our mailing [...]
Consumer Focus is the independent champion for consumers across England, Wales, Scotland and (for postal consumers) in Northern Ireland. We operate across the whole of the economy, persuading businesses and public services to put consumers at the heart of what they do.
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