Expanding toy - Growing Spider
Blue 2
- Country of origin
- People's Republic of China
- Notifying country
- UK
- Counterfeit
- No
- Sold online
- No
What is the danger
The product poses a risk of choking because the legs can be easily pulled off from the body of the spider and could be put in the mouth. The legs could cause adverse health affects if they were swallowed because they could expand in the stomach. The product does not comply with the Toys Directive and with the relevant European standard EN 71.
Measures taken
- Voluntary withdrawal from the market and recall from consumers. Voluntary measuresTaken by: Other
Product
- Description
- Plastic spider in two colours that expands. Packaged in a plastic bag with a header card ‘GROWING SPIDER’ on the reverse are the age and choking hazard warnings.
- Brand
- Model / type
Original source
Data comes from the official Safety Gate system of the European Commission.
- Alert number
- 1476/10 ↗
- Weekly report
- Report-2010-40
- Published
- 7 October 2010
- Corrigendum
- Corrigenda Notification 1113/10 from report 29 of 2010 has been removed from the RAPEX system following additional information on the risk assessment provided by the national authorities. The risk description of notification 0278/10 from week 7 of 2010 has been updated.
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