Rubber solution in bicycle repair kit.
Unknown
Chemical productsChemical
- Country of origin
- People's Republic of China
- Notifying country
- Lithuania
- Counterfeit
- No
- Sold online
- No
What is the danger
The product poses a chemical risk because the rubber solution contains 30 % of toluene. Toluene is classified as reprotoxic. According to the Chemical Restrictions Directive, toluene is prohibited in consumer products at levels above 0.1%. The product does not comply with the Chemical Restrictions Directive 76/769/EEC.
Measures taken
- Withdrawal from the market and recall from consumers ordered by the authorities. Compulsory measuresTaken by: Other
Product
- Description
- Repair kit: the packaging consists of a stiff transparent casing on cardboard, contains metal bicycle spanners, metal scraper, 2 tyre valves, rubber patches (2 round and 2 rectangular) and a small, white tube of RUBBER SOLUTION, marked in English with ideograms of a skull and an orange flame on a white background.
- Brand
- Model / type
Original source
Data comes from the official Safety Gate system of the European Commission.
- Alert number
- 0626/08 ↗
- Weekly report
- Report-2008-23
- Published
- 12 June 2008
- Corrigendum
- Corrigendum: Notification 0530/08 from week 19 in year 2008 has been amended to provide more detail concerning the cause of the risk involved
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