World Bulletin / News Desk

Inspections will take start at Turkish customs to prevent entrance of dangerous items which may contain chemical materials as well as stationery and child care products which are hazardous to health as of January 1, 2013.

Turkish Ministry of Customs and Trade has decided to inspect items in the scope of sanitating consumer's health.

Imported products will be inspected at the Turkish customs as part of the market surveillance and inspection facilities.

According to AA's received information that Turkish Minister of Customs and Trade Hayati Yazici issued and published the "Customs control of some consumer products". According to it, market surveillance and inspection facilities which aim the consumer products in domestic market will take off on January 1, 2013. Hereunder, unhealthy and unsafe products will be sent back before entering into the market. Inspections will cover items such as stationery and child care products.

Furthermore, with the order of Turkish Minister Yazici, in 2012 more than 25 thousand market surveillance and inspection facilities took place and under those inspections, 6 thousand items were detected as unsafe.