Product Responsibility

Abstract

The interest in corporate responsibility is shifting from corporate information to product information. New types of information such as carbon footprint or water footprint have been introduced, but they are voluntary indicators in areas that do not include actual risks for the consumer. The actual product responsibility is most often legislated. There is plenty of legislation on the health and safety of products, product labelling, marketing communication and customer privacy protection. In developed countries, the problems in this area are rare; the more serious incidents have happened in developing countries where the legislation and its control is often insufficient.