The EU's role in our consumer safety

Thanks to the EU, we in the UK benefit from:

• the ability to buy quality goods at reasonable prices, due to consumer protection measures and benefits of standardisation
• safety standards for goods and services, including for the toys that our children play with, and a mechanism for acting swiftly when products are found to be dangerous or faulty
• safer food, through monitoring of the full lifecycle of food production and supply
• safe, well-studied medicines
• controlled use of chemicals in manufacturing and in the environment.

Source:

"What does the EU mean for us, shoppers and consumers", http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/what-does-the-eu-mean-for-us-shoppers-and-consumers-pbIK0213746/