EU rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products. proactive, member states test imports as they arrive and alert each other. each row is an alert with the actual ppb measurement that triggered it. mostly electronics, toys, jewelry, and cosmetics. 2,131 records covering 62 countries of origin, 2005 to 2026.
the european union safety gate (formerly RAPEX) is the EU rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products. when any EU member state catches a dangerous product at the border or on the shelf, they file an alert and every other member state sees it within days.
this is the closest thing the world has to truly proactive lead surveillance. the EU monitors products more intensively than the FDA and CPSC who only publish recall notices, EU member states are actively pulling products off shelves and testing them, then publishing the test result alongside the alert. every row in this slice has the actual ppb measurement that triggered it.
2,131 alerts covering 1,958 unique products from 1,007 brands and 62 countries of origin, 2005 through 2026. heavy on electronics (828 alerts on cables, chargers, holiday lights with leaded solder), toys (432), jewelry (269), and cosmetics (185).
the highest readings are imported electronics with leaded solder pulling 85-89% lead by mass, well above the EU RoHS limit of 0.1%. nearly all of these products would still be legal in the US because no US agency tests them on the way in.
EU Safety Gate contributed measurements to 11 of the 13 categories in the lead database. each card links to the full sortable table for that category, where you can filter by source = "EU Safety Gate" to see only these rows.
metals tested: lead.
units: normalized to ppb (parts per billion by mass), identical to µg/kg. 1,000 ppb = 1 ppm = 1 mg/kg = 0.0001%. recall records (where the original notice did not publish a concentration) are flagged in the table as "recall record" rather than a number.
license: EU public sector information. when you reuse rows from this source, attribute the original source. the unified database itself is published under CC-BY-SA 4.0.
official source: https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/
the lead database hub stitches together EU Safety Gate with eight other open-license sources for a unified, searchable view of consumer-product heavy-metal data. nine sources, thirteen categories, 67,497 measurements, all normalized to the same units.
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