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Felt-tip pens CREACTIVA “Magic Pens - Colour Pens - Original” — risk: chemical
Published in the Safety Gate weekly report: · Ref. A12/0536/14
Summary
null The product poses a chemical risk because the brown ink releases an excessive amount of copper (measured value: 309 mg/kg).The product does not comply with the requirements of the Toy Safety Directive and the relevant European standard EN 71-3.
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Product
- Colourful box with 20 pens, 10 of which are magic pens (changing colours) and 10 are colour pens.
What is the risk?
- null The product poses a chemical risk because the brown ink releases an excessive amount of copper (measured value: 309 mg/kg).The product does not comply with the requirements of the Toy Safety Directive and the relevant European standard EN 71-3.
Measures taken
- Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): OtherCategory of measure(s): Recall of the product from end users
- Date of entry into force: 01/03/2014
- Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): OtherCategory of measure(s): Destruction of the product
- Date of entry into force: Unknown
- Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): OtherCategory of measure(s): Withdrawal of the product from the market
- Date of entry into force: 01/03/2014
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Source: Safety Gate — European Commission
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