The General Product Directive will apply to your products, and in the UK that means the General Product Safety Regulations 2005 apply. See http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2005/20051803.htm
Under these Regulations the authorities have the ability to require producers (manufacturers, importers and own branders) to withdraw product from the marketplace if they are unsafe. This can involve requiring producers to place public notices withdrawing all affected product. Therefore, it is in the manufacturers own interest to have a means of identifying products having a particular build standard that end users can recognise (otherwise you'll have to recall every single product). Most companies use serial numbers or manufacturing date codes in combination with the model number as the means of providing that traceability. Regards, Richard Hughes Sudhakar Wasnik wrote: Hello Experts, Is it mandatory to have serial number on the ITE products (printed and visible) per regulatory compliance standard? Thank you in advance. Sudhakar Wasnik SanDisk Corp. 140mCaspian Ct. Sunnyvale, CA 94089. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to emc-p...@ieee.org Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas emcp...@ptcnh.net Mike Cantwell mcantw...@ieee.org For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org David Heald: emc-p...@daveheald.com All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
