Temu users face a ‘high risk’ of finding illegal products, EU says

Temu users successful the European Union are astatine “high risk” of coming crossed amerciable products portion buying connected the platform, arsenic reported earlier by The Financial Times. Preliminary findings from the European Commission’s probe into the level uncovered babe toys, tiny electronics, and different items connected Temu considered counterfeit, unsafe, oregon “non-compliant.”

Last year, the EU designated Temu a “Very Large Online Platform” nether its Digital Services Act (DSA), which holds online platforms accountable for hosting amerciable goods, services, and content. The EU aboriginal opened an investigation into Temu implicit concerns that it’s not doing capable to support amerciable products disconnected its ultra-cheap marketplace.

Temu present has a accidental to respond to the EU’s findings. If the EU yet finds that Temu did interruption its rules, the level could look fees of up to 6 percent of its planetary yearly revenue. The Commission says it volition proceed to analyse different suspected regularisation violations connected Temu, including its “addictive plan features, the transparency of its proposal systems, and its entree to information for researchers.”