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The General Product Safety Regulations, or GPSR, allow for a baseline safety standard whereby all consumer products must be safe under reasonably foreseeable conditions of use. However, many products present risks that are managed through bespoke regulations, such as machinery and children’s toys. As noble Lords have heard my noble friend say previously, these regulations extend to many pages of often hugely technical detail. They include products such as cosmetics, fireworks, lifts, pressure equipment and so forth. Provisions already exist that relate to products presenting a serious risk. Articles 20 and 21 of the regulation on accreditation and market surveillance 2008, or RAMS, places a duty on authorities to recall, withdraw or prohibit the availability on the market of such products.