Those obstacles included a recall over allegations of unintended sudden acceleration by Toyota vehicles, a problem that raised questions about the company's quality control, safety measures and customer service.

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In so doing it gave up the company's control over quality and safety.

FORBES

Furthermore, compliance with the RoHS directive(1) and REACH regulations(2) regarding the safety of chemicals in ICT products has made it challenging to control the quality of recycled plastics, and until now it has been impossible to reuse recovered plastic in a computer bodies.

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The company said its safety audits are normally done annually, and there is also a locally based quality-control team that visits weekly during production runs.

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