paulo coscarelli deputy director of quality national institute of metrology, quality and technology...
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Paulo CoscarelliDeputy Director of Quality
National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology - Inmetro
ICPHSO’s 2011 International SymposiumToward Global Best Practices in Product
Safety and Consumer Protection
Brazil’s Product and Consumer Safety Trends and Issues
Seoul, November, 2011
Brazil
Area: 8.511.965 km2
Population: 193.735.000
7th largest economy
Takes part of BRICs
Takes part of the United Nations Security Council
The brazilian consumer can buy more: increased 19% in the last 8 years
Our national industry is growing: 10,1%
The consumption is growing: 4% just in the first quarter of 2011. The imported products is responsible for 64% of this growing
Competitiveness Global Products Consumer Safety
Who We Are• National Metrology Institute
• Enquiry Point of WTO’s Technical Barriers to Trade
• National Accreditation Body
• Regulator on Legal Metrology
• Regulator on Consumer Product Safety and Unfair Competition (in areas that are not regulated by any other regulators)
• Coordinator of the Conformity Assessment Schemes implemented under the Brazilian Conformity Assessment System
• Coordinator of the market surveillance activities at the marketplace
New law published in August – Gives us more power
Product Safety – Pre and Post Market
Ex-Ante:
• Regulation;
• Conformity Assessment Schemes (certification);
• Product Registration;
• Authorization to imported products
Ex Post:• Inspection at the
marketplace;• Educational campaigns;• Ongoing Assessment of
Product Conformance by Inmetro;
• Ongoing Assessment of Product Conformance by External Agents;
• International recalls and notifications surveillance
Inmetro conformity mark: more than 200 thousand types of products
Number of CAS
Inmetro’s Conformity Identification Mark
O n labels, packages or products
On labels, packages or products
Number of Inspections
M ore than 300 local inspectors
More than 300 local inspectors
However ...
• most of the brazilian regulators aren’t allowed to enter into the ports and airports to inspect – Inmetro is one of them;
• no injuries data base;
• difficulties to get the support from the hospitals to collect data;
• the consumers in general don’t know that an injury caused by a consumer product must be reported to the authorities because they still believe, in most of the cases, that this type of injury is their fault;
• recall culture “under construction”;
• the price continues to be the main characteristic used by the consumer to make the decision to buy a product
But we are working hard on ...
http://www.inmetro.gov.br/consumidor/acidente_consumo.asp
Building a Consumer Report Data Base
Updated in August, 2011
• Link from the web pages of the state market surveillance and consumer protection authorities to the Inmetro’s form
• Local consumer education campaigns
More Reliable Data Base
Building a Network with Our National Counterparts
Health Authority
Consumer Protection AuthorityTraffic Safety Authority
Consumer Product Safety Authority
Others must join us ...
Building a Network with Other Jurisdictions
Building a Network through the International Forums
Working Party on Consumer Product Safety
Tracking and Traceability Pilot Project
Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies
International Product Safety Week
Seminar and Annual Meetings
PC 240 and PC 243
Building a Network through the Americas
• A work that begun in 2009• Gathers authorities: health, consumer protection, product safety, metrology• The official launch was in november, 2010• Advisory Technical Group• 2 seminars: Lima and Bogota• 1 post-graduate course on Market Surveillance• Rapid Alert Interamerican System: harmonization of definitions
Trends and Issues
• Increasing the requests for more regulation;
• To change how to regulate;
• To update the national legislation;
• Authorization to enter in ports, airports and borders;
• Implementation of a statistically reliabe consumer report data base and
an Injury Surveillance System based on the data collected from the
hospitals;
• Enhancing the partnership with other jurisdictions (MoU and
communication channel) and the participation in the forums;
• Enhancing the articulation with other regulators at national and state
level
OBRIGADO!!!THANKS!!!
KAMSA KAMNIDA!!!
One Global Marketplace, One Global Product, A Harmonized
Consumer Protection: A Global Effort