Total recall

The cost of recalling a product and the damage it can cause to the reputation of a brand make it imperative that companies are aware of insuring against the risk and also of taking precautions to avoid it in the first place. Fiona Heyes and Andrew Masterson explain how

The Sudan 1 crisis has faded from the media spotlight but its impact has been wide ranging. It is also just one of a large number of major product recalls over the past few years, the costs of which run into hundreds of millions of pounds.

The introduction of the General Product Safety Regulations 2005 expected in the summer or autumn will also have a wide ranging impact on manufacturers and distributors and their obligations regarding product safety and recall. For those businesses that have not