
Tattoo ink
Eternal Ink · Dark Red
Chemical productsChemical
- Country of origin
- United States
- Notifying country
- Italy
- Counterfeit
- No
Requirements breached
The product contains the aromatic amine o-anisidine (measured value 27 mg/kg). Aromatic amines can cause cancer, cell mutations and affect reproduction. The Council of Europe Resolution ResAP (2008)1 on requirements and criteria for the safety of tattoos and permanent make-up, recommends that aromatic amines with carcinogenic, mutagenic, reprotoxic or sensitising properties should neither be present in tattoos and permanent make-up products nor released from azo-colourants. The product does not comply with the national legislation.
Measures taken
- Ban on the marketing of the product and any accompanying measures Compulsory measuresTaken by: ImporterIn force from: 1 August 2017
Product
- Description
- Bottle of red pigment for tattoos.
- Brand
- Batch
Original source
Data comes from the official Safety Gate system of the European Commission.
- Alert number
- A12/1279/17 ↗
- Weekly report
- Report-2017-038
- Published
- 13 September 2017
- Corrigendum
- Notification A12/1254/17 from Report-2017-037 has been updated with new information received from the notifying authority concerning the production period of vehicles affected.
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