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MetricConsumers and product responsibility

Product and service information and labeling noncompliance incidents

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Distinct incidents in which product or service information or labeling was determined not to comply with a named regulation or voluntary code.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Structured table
Unit
Distinct information and labeling noncompliance incidents
Reporting basis
Reporting period
Aggregation
Add only non-overlapping records after applying the stated identity and deduplication controls
Pillar
Social
Topic
Consumers and product responsibility
Controlled domain
Consumers and end users
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

Add only disjoint incident matters. Keep information and labeling, marketing-communications, and health-and-safety incident populations separate.

Verified source occurrences

Framework coverage

This is one canonical metric. The bindings below show every verified framework occurrence without creating duplicate metric pages. Edition, disclosure, role, and relationship remain source-specific.

  • Adopting Disclosure

    GRI Standards

    Source evidence
    Publisher
    Global Reporting Initiative
    Edition
    2016
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Defines Disclosure
    Mapping outcome
    Direct Evidence
    Source locator
    Disclosure 417-2, PDF page 9; definitions, PDF page 11
    Open official framework source

Value structure

Dimensions and units

Unit
Distinct information and labeling noncompliance incidents
Reporting basis
Reporting period

Unit meaning: A non-negative count of distinct incident matters under the named rule and event basis; affected labels, products and outcomes are attributes, not automatic extra incidents.

Table fields and units

  • Incident identity
  • Product or service
  • Rule
  • Authority
  • Jurisdiction
  • Information or labeling subject
  • Outcome

Published dimensions

  • product or service
  • category or model
  • market and jurisdiction
  • regulation or code
  • information or labeling subject
  • authority
  • event and decision dates
  • finding and outcome
  • deduplication rule

Disclosure method

Formula information

Status
Not applicable
Formula type
Structured Disclosure

Disclosure form

No single formula

Populate the structured fields from qualifying source observations and retain each field-level unit, boundary, status, and method; do not collapse the disclosure into one calculated value.

Verified sources

Evidence and status sources

Sustopedia checked each record-specific claim directly against primary publisher material. Labels distinguish current measurement authority from future compatibility and corroborative, legal, edition, or method status context. Corroborative evidence can support a stated limitation but cannot establish the core measurement by itself.

Measurement evidence

  • Measurement evidenceChecked 15 August 2026

    GRI 417: Marketing and Labeling 2016

    Publisher
    Global Reporting Initiative
    Edition
    2016
    Locator
    Disclosure 417-2, PDF page 9; definitions, PDF page 11

    Supports: Supports the product and service information and labeling noncompliance incident profile.

    Open official source

Use with context

Interpretation boundaries

Method disclosures required

Source-edition basis: GRI 417: Marketing and Labeling 2016, current effective edition at the research cutoff.

  • Name the rule, authority, jurisdiction and information or labeling subject.
  • Define incident identity and event-period treatment.
  • Do not merge this population with marketing or health-and-safety incidents.

Record-specific limitations

  • The count depends on applicable rules, enforcement, monitoring and reporter classification.
  • It does not measure labeled-unit volume, consumers affected, severity, recall activity, health effects or overall compliance.

Interpret this metric with the stated reporting boundary, period convention, value shape, and unit. Results prepared with different boundaries or conventions may not be directly comparable.

Measurement evidence supports the core record-specific claims described above. Corroborative evidence can support limitations, while compatibility and status sources provide their separately labelled context. None of these cards by itself determines an organisation's legal applicability, filing readiness, assurance status, or compliance conclusion.