France wants to see more forceful EU action taken against online platforms such as Shein and Temu for selling “dangerous” Chinese goods, as Paris continues its crackdown on ecommerce following a sex doll scandal.Sarah Lacoche, head of the country’s competition and consumer protection body, said the level of dangerous products — from overheating hairdryers to teddy bears with dangerous parts — on Asian platforms such as Shein far surpassed those of other online marketplaces.
“We’ve got a rate of non-conformity and dangerousness of these products that remains far too important,” she told the FT. “I’m not saying that there aren’t nonconforming and dangerous products on other platforms, but not to this degree.”
France has reinforced controls on items since it uncovered childlike sex toys and weapons being sold on Shein and other platforms last year. It has tripled the number of tests on foreign marketplaces in the past year.