EU alert · Safety Gate Risk: Other types of alerts Clothing, textiles and fashion items
Children’s dress — risk: choking
Published in the Safety Gate weekly report: · Ref. INFO/00100/21
Summary
The product has small parts, which can easily come off. Children can put them in the mouth and choke on them. The product does not comply with the requirements of the General Product Safety Directive and European standard EN 71-1.
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Product
Children’s dress
- Children’s dress in white colour. There are three white plastic balls stuck onto the front part of the dress and beneath them there is a glued-on ribbon with a glued-on ball on it that can be easily removed.
What is the risk?
- The product has small parts, which can easily come off. Children can put them in the mouth and choke on them. The product does not comply with the requirements of the General Product Safety Directive and European standard EN 71-1.
Measures taken
- Type of economic operator to whom the measure(s) were ordered: RetailerCategory of measure(s): Withdrawal of the product from the market
- Date of entry into force: 20/04/2021
Source: Safety Gate — European Commission
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