Tattoo ink
Intenze · Bright Sunshine
- Country of origin
- United States
- Notifying country
- Germany
- Counterfeit
- No
- Sold online
- Yes
What is the danger
The product contains the aromatic amine o-toluidine (measured value up to: 62.5 mg/kg).
Requirements breached
This aromatic amine is genotoxic and may cause cancer. The product does not comply with the recommendations of the Council of Europe Resolution ResAP (2008)1 on requirements and criteria for the safety of tattoos and permanent make-up and the relevant national Law.
Measures taken
- Recall of the product from end users Voluntary measuresTaken by: DistributorIn force from: 6 September 2019
- Withdrawal of the product from the market Voluntary measuresTaken by: DistributorIn force from: 6 September 2019
Product
- Description
- Plastic bottle with drip cap, containing 29 ml of tattoo ink. The product was also sold online.
- Brand
- Batch
Original source
Data comes from the official Safety Gate system of the European Commission.
- Alert number
- A12/1638/19 ↗
- Weekly report
- Report-2019-044
- Published
- 24 October 2019
- Corrigendum
- Notification A12/1154/19 has been permanently withdrawn from report 2019-31 of 02-08-2019 at the request of the notifying authority following new test results that prove compliance of the product. The brand name in notification A12/1393/19 of report 2019-39 has been corrected at the request of the notifying authority. Notification A12/1451/19 has temporarily been unpublished from web report 2019-40 at the request of the notifying authority due to an ongoing investigation. The category in notifications A12/1638/19 and A12/1641/19 has been changed from "Cosmetics" into "Chemical Products" after agreement with notifying authority. An additional distributor and the related voluntary measures have been added to A12/1641/19 on request of the notifying authority. In agreement with the notifying authority the products in notifications A12/16438/19 and A12/1641/19 have been changed to product not of professional use.
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