Water balloons

Unknown · Waterbommen

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Notifying country: France

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What is the danger

The amount of nitrosamines released by the balloons is too high (measured value: 0.40 mg/kg).

Requirements breached

Nitrosamines are genotoxic carcinogens via inhalation, ingestion or dermal exposure. A child can get exposed to them by putting the balloon in the mouth. The product does not comply with the requirements of the Toy Safety Directive and the relevant European standard EN 71-12.

Measures taken

Recall of the product from end users Voluntary measuresTaken by: DistributorIn force from: 21 August 2018

Product

Description: Multicoloured latex balloons packaged in a plastic bag.
Brand: Unknown
Model / type: LO-51202B2359-G
Batch: EAN: 8711194112012

Original source

Data comes from the official Safety Gate system of the European Commission.

Alert number: A12/1347/18 ↗
Weekly report: Report-2018-038
Published: 12 September 2018
Corrigendum: Corrigenda: Notification A12/0914/18 from Report-2018-028 has been updated to reflect more accurately the non-compliance and the resulting risk for consumers. The product category in notification A11/0147/17 from Report 2017-51 has been modified at the request of the notifying country.