It is very unwise of cargo bike company Babboe to hardly inform its customers about the safety problem with many cargo bikes and the recall. This is what two communication experts told ANP about Babboe's lack of clarity about the problem. Babboe should show more empathy and make it clear to people what the company is doing to improve safety, they said.
More than 3,000 owners of Babboe cargo bikes have registered as claimants via the website bakfietsclaim.nl, reported the law firm Birkway, which set up the hotline on Friday. Among other things, the website is used to determine the number of injured parties and the problems with the cargo bikes.
Regulators in several other countries where Babboe is active have not yet taken measures against the cargo bike company, despite the measures taken by the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA). The Dutch regulator temporarily banned the sales of all cargo bikes by Babboe and demanded that the company recall most models.
The Accell Group-owned brand has halted sales of its entire range after finding manufacturing errors and welding defects in frames, amid accusations of a cover up by former and current employees
Three Dutch slaughterhouses each got over a dozen fines for animal welfare violations in eight years. Violations include animal abuse, slaughtering animals while they are still conscious, and dipping them in hot water before they are dead, RTL Nieuws reports based on violations and fines imposed by the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) in the period 2015-2022.