{"id":22082,"date":"2012-11-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2012\/11\/20121128_171523.shtml"},"modified":"2012-11-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T04:00:00","slug":"customs-bans-unsafe-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2012\/11\/28\/customs-bans-unsafe-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs bans unsafe seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/categories\/law_order\/related\/2012\/11\/week5\/customs1_s.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Customs &amp; Excise Department today banned the supply of a dangerous folding chair and stool.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Acting on complaints, Customs officers sent samples of the products to the Government Laboratory for safety tests, with reference to the British standards for strength, durability and safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the metal legs on the chair was fractured and nearly detached from the supporting frame, with a loose joining screw. For the stool, the legs were seriously deformed with cracked joints. The products could cause falls and injure users.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers later seized from the chain 18 chairs and 42 stools. A prohibition notice was served prohibiting the supply of the two products. The investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Call the Customs 24-hour hotline 2545 6182 to report unsafe consumer goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Customs &amp; Excise Department today banned the supply of a dangerous folding chair and stool.\u00a0Acting on complaints, Customs officers sent samples of the products to the Government Laboratory for safety tests, with reference to the British standa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}