A high number of “products that are unsafe, counterfeit, or otherwise noncompliant leads to serious safety and health risks,” the draft proposal said, per the FT.

The European Union will increase customs checks on goods shipped directly by ecommerce retailers like Temu and Shein to EU consumers as it seeks to ensure fair competition and product safety, according to a draft of an official communication seen by Reuters on Monday.

European consumer-advocacy group BEUC called out Chinese e-commerce company Temu for selling products it considers dangerous and in breach of the European Union’s consumer-protection rules. The group said Monday that tests carried out by its members in Denmark and Italy over the past 15 months showed some products,