{"id":82588,"date":"2026-04-20T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/?p=82588"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:53:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:53:34","slug":"inspections-in-kosovo-shake-up-the-market-hundreds-of-unsafe-products-confiscated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/inspections-in-kosovo-shake-up-the-market-hundreds-of-unsafe-products-confiscated\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspections in Kosovo shake up the market, hundreds of unsafe products confiscated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Central Market Surveillance Inspectorate (IQMT) has increased the intensity of market inspections with the arrival of the spring season, aiming to ensure product safety and protect consumers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a statement from the Ministry of Trade, the inspections have mainly focused on machinery products, personal protective equipment, children\u2019s toys, and other products that pose a potential risk to health and safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During field inspections, inspectors identified and removed from the market a large number of unsafe products, which were confiscated due to a lack of technical documentation and exceeding their usage expiry date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to IQMT, the confiscated products include: 13 drilling machines (drills), 5 angle grinders, 426 discs for cutting iron and concrete, 251 reflective safety vests, 114 work helmets, 176 welding masks, 11 paint and varnish products, as well as 931 children\u2019s toys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IQMT emphasized that it will continue field inspections, calling on economic operators to comply with legal standards, while urging citizens to report any suspected cases of unsafe products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Market Surveillance Inspectorate (IQMT) has increased the intensity of market inspections with the arrival of the spring season, aiming to ensure product safety and protect consumers. According to a statement from the Ministry of Trade, the inspections have mainly focused on machinery products, personal protective equipment, children\u2019s toys, and other products that pose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":82589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[296],"tags":[5202,343,4975],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82590,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82588\/revisions\/82590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}