Children's swim vest
Pool School · Unknown
Protective equipmentDrowning
- Country of origin
- People's Republic of China
- Notifying country
- Bulgaria
Requirements breached
The product poses a risk of drowning because the inflatable safety vest has three individual circles to be inflated with three valves; two of the valves are not reciprocating and allow free air leakage while the requirement states that the valves and stoppers shall be reciprocating and allow controlled reduction of pressure. Furthermore, the product does not contain the necessary warnings and instructions for use. The product does not comply with the Personal Protective Equipment Directive and with the relevant European standard EN 13138-1.
Measures taken
- Ban on the marketing of the product and any accompanying measures Compulsory measuresTaken by: OtherIn force from: 30 August 2013
Product
- Description
- Children's inflatable, safety vest in yellow colour, size: 58 x 48cm, intended for children weighing up to 25 kg. On the front there are inscriptions in a foreign language: STEP А, B, C, POOL SCHOOL ™, STEP B, SWIM VEST; at the back there are warnings in English. There are also three valves with th
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Original source
Data comes from the official Safety Gate system of the European Commission.
- Alert number
- A12/1268/13 ↗
- Weekly report
- Report-2013-037
- Published
- 11 September 2013
- Corrigendum
- Corrigenda Notification A12/0554/13 from week 18 of 2013 has been temporarily removed pending clarification concerning the risk assessment by the notifying authority. Notification A12/0763/13 from week 25 of 2013 has been temporarily removed pending clarification concerning the risk assessment by the notifying authority."
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