Which? demands minimum standards for protection products

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Which? has called for regulators to ensure protection products meet minimum standards.

The consumer watchdog added that the future Consumer Protection and Markets Agency (CPMA) should embrace its role in product regulation. It made the statement in response to the FSA's discussion paper on product regulation and said the present regulator must tackle problems at the heart of the industry. As part of its response, Which? called on the CPMA to ‘embrace the role that product regulation can play in addressing conflicts of interest, disciplining markets and aligning the interests of producers with consumers.' It believes that product regulation could be used by the regula...

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