Risks : Long term safety

The European Union has been sensible enough to recognise people can often be harmed by badly designed products. They ensure that everything is done to protect the consumer from poor workmanship and dangerous faults. Consumer safety markings are widely used to convey that products conform to standards.

Of course pirated goods come with no safety standards and no guarantee of conformity. Whilst buyers of such products can rightly expect help and assistance from health care providers if they are harmed by pirate products they will be unable to gain recompense from any other source.