
Lighting chain
Watt & Veke · Anemone light strand
Lighting chainsEnvironment
- Country of origin
- People's Republic of China
- Notifying country
- Sweden
- Counterfeit
- No
- Sold online
- No
Requirements breached
The transparent plastic in the strand contains up to 0.7% by weight short chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs). The placing on the market and use of articles containing SCCPs is banned. SCCPs persist in the environment, are toxic to aquatic organisms at low concentrations and bioaccumulate in wildlife and humans, posing a risk to human health and the environment. The product does not comply with the Regulation on persistent organic pollutants (POP Regulation).
Measures taken
- Withdrawal of the product from the market Voluntary measuresTaken by: ManufacturerIn force from: 30 May 2016
Product
- Description
- A lighting chain with flowers made of textile and an adapter.
- Brand
- Model / type
- Batch
Original source
Data comes from the official Safety Gate system of the European Commission.
- Alert number
- A12/1724/16 ↗
- Weekly report
- Report-2016-051
- Published
- 15 December 2016
- Corrigendum
- Notification A12/0502/16, in Report-2016-017, has been downgraded to art 11 due to new assessment of the applicable standard and risk (A11/0130/16). Notification A12/1677/16 has been withdrawn from Report-2016-050 following request of the notifying national authority. The production dates in notifications A12/1571/16 and A12/1572/16, in Report-2016-048, have been updated following new information on the extension of the recall.
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