
Cycling gloves carrying the PRO, SHIMANO or SAINT mark
PRO, SHIMANO or SAINT
Hobby/sports equipmentChemical
- Country of origin
- Pakistan
- Notifying country
- The Netherlands
- Counterfeit
- No
- Sold online
- No
What is the danger
The product poses a carcinogenic risk because certain gloves contain the aromatic amine benzidine in levels up to 450 mg/kg in the red part of the gloves race red cw7u107334. Risk-assessment based on a worst case exposure scenario resulted in a slight higher risk level than the NRL (negligible risk level) for Benzidine.
Measures taken
- Voluntary withdrawal from the market and recall from consumers. Voluntary measuresTaken by: Other
Product
- Description
- The majority of cycling gloves affected by this corrective action will carry a label showing that they were manufactured in Pakistan. However, some cycling gloves which have no visible label may also be affected by this corrective action. Gloves which carry a label indicating that they were manufactured in a country other than Pakistan are not affected by this recall. The label is located on the inside cuff area of the gloves.
- Brand
- Model / type
Original source
Data comes from the official Safety Gate system of the European Commission.
- Alert number
- 1321/07 ↗
- Weekly report
- Report-2007-50
- Published
- 20 December 2007
© European Union, Safety Gate · https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/alertDetail/-13018
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