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In light of these findings, such liability can accordingly arise if it is necessary, for the sake of health protection or hygiene, to clean the mattress (or garment and comparable goods) in order to sell it again to a new buyer. It can also arise where such cleaned goods cannot be sold as new goods but only as second hand goods at a (significantly) lower price. In this respect, the trader must not mislead the new buyer of the cleaned goods as to their specification (new or ‘used’), as this is important part of the products characteristics, also in the context of the UCPD.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.