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A12/1641/18

Tattoo ink

Eternal Ink · Lime Green

Country of origin
United States
Notifying country
Italy
Counterfeit
No
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What is the danger

The product contains the aromatic amine o-anisidine (measured value: 33.8 mg/kg).

Requirements breached

This aromatic amine 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.

Measures taken

  1. Ban on the marketing of the product and any accompanying measures Compulsory measuresTaken by: ImporterIn force from: 2 October 2018

Product

Description
30 ml bottle of green tattoo ink.
Brand
Eternal Ink
Batch
batch 30.09.15

Original source

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

Alert number
A12/1641/18 ↗
Weekly report
Report-2018-045
Published
31 October 2018
Corrigendum
Corrigenda : Notification A12/0324/18 from report 2018-009 and Notifications A12/0346/18, A12/0348/18, A12/0353/18 from report 2018-010 have been updated to improve identification of the affected products (batch number and date of manufacture have been added). Notification A12/1514/18 from Report-2018-042 has been downgraded at the request of the notifying Member State after re-assessment of the risk. The risk is considered less than serious (new number A11/0086/18).

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