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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Josie Clarke

Fake toys worth more than £3.5m seized at UK border so far this year

Fake toys worth more than £3.5 million have been seized at the UK border already this year, with 75% of them failing critical safety tests, authorities have warned.

Of the 259,000 fake toys intercepted at the border, 90% of them – or 236,000 items – were counterfeit Labubu dolls, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) said.

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