Risk Assessment levels – by Country of Origin Sample Clauses

Risk Assessment levels – by Country of Origin. In this section, an attempt is made to try to check whether some form of deductions can be concluded from the data related to country of origin and the respective risk levels. First of all, it is important to note what this report is intending to mean by ‘country of origin’. This is the name of the country shown on the label of the high chair where usually the manufacturer address is situated. This is where the responsibility lies and therefore this is what is being taken into consideration here. Therefore, to give an example, if a manufacturer within an EEA Member State fixes a label on the high chair showing that the high chair is manufactured within that Member State, that is the country that is being taken into consideration, irrespective of whether that manufacturer actually has some far east production line for its high chairs. Figure 49 gives a breakdown of all tested 70 high chairs by country of origin. It is interested to note that both EEA and China are by far the most predominant groups, amounting to 37% and 46% respectively. If one includes China with the rest of the samples having an Asian origin, the total will add up to 54% (46% + 8%), which is just over half of the samples tested within this project. EEA China Other Asian Countries No Country of Origin On the next page, one finds some further breakdown of this information. Figure 50 shows the risk levels (in percentages) of all the EEA samples. One immediately notices that the EEA samples identified as having ‘serious risk’ and ‘high risk’ constitute 38% of all the samples (19% for ‘serious risk’ and another 19% for ‘high risk’ samples. On the other hand, Figure 51 shows the risk levels (in percentages) of all samples originating from China. In this case, it is interesting to note that although more samples have been taken from this group, the actual risk levels are much less than those shown within EEA samples. Indeed, if you compare the risk levels between the two groups, the risk level of samples originating in China is only 18% for all ‘serious risk’ and’ high risk levels. Figure 52 tries to give a more detailed overview of all the risk levels within the respective areas. Serious Risk High Risk Medium Risk Low Risk Not Applicable Serious Risk High Risk Medium Risk Low Risk Not Applicable Figure 51, Samples originating from China showing different risk levels EEA China Other Asian Countries No Country of Origin Serious Risk 19% 15% 17% 17% High Risk 19% 3% 17% 33% Medium Risk 35% 16% 32%...