Finding
One in four EU dangerous-product alerts in 2025 was for a product sold online — and most don't say
Numbers frozen on 1 October 2026.
The European Commission's report on EU Safety Gate for 2025 (published 9 March 2026) counts a record 4,671 alerts. It does not say how many of the products were sold online. The alerts themselves record this, so we counted.
The numbers for 2025
We hold 4,631 alerts published in 2025, which is 99% of the Commission's 4,671. We count alerts available individually in the public data and have not reconciled the remaining difference.
| Recorded in the alert | Alerts | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sold online: yes | 1,150 | 25% |
| Sold online: no | 893 | 19% |
| Sold online: unknown | 2,588 | 56% |
| Names an online marketplace | 694 | 15% |
| Product removed from an online marketplace | 469 | 10% |
| Country of origin China | 1,981 | 43% |
Of the 1,150 alerts marked as sold online, 462 (40%) do not say where. The marketplaces named most often in 2025 were Amazon (371 alerts), AliExpress (83), Temu (73), Shein (56) and eBay (55).
What changed
Reporting of online sales is improving fast. The share of alerts naming a marketplace went from 6% in 2024 to 15% in 2025 and 26% so far in 2026. The share removed from a marketplace went from 6% to 10% to 19%. Part of the rise in platform counts is better record-keeping, not only more dangerous products online.
Caveat
"Unknown" is the most common answer. National authorities fill in the sold-online field unevenly, so the true share of online sales is higher than 25% by an amount nobody can measure from these records. See the methodology.