
Tattoo ink
Intenze · Maroon Honey
Chemical productsChemical
- Country of origin
- United States
- Notifying country
- Italy
- Counterfeit
- No
What is the danger
The product contains the aromatic amines o-anisidine (measured value: 36.2 mg/kg) and toluidine (measured value: 14.7 mg/kg).
Requirements breached
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.
Measures taken
- Ban on the marketing of the product and any accompanying measures Compulsory measuresTaken by: DistributorIn force from: 4 April 2019
Product
- Description
- Yellow tattoo ink in a small bottle with a volume of 29.6 ml, bearing the brand, batch number and colour index.
- Brand
- Model / type
- Batch
Original source
Data comes from the official Safety Gate system of the European Commission.
- Alert number
- A12/0667/19 ↗
- Weekly report
- Report-2019-017
- Published
- 17 April 2019
- Corrigendum
- Notification A12/0476/19 has been permanently withdrawn from report 2019-012 of 22-03-2019 following reassessment of the risk.
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