In December, only 3 reports of the Rapex System of alerts on dangerous products for EU consumers were published.
However, as many as 14 cosmetic items and 8 tattoo inks were notified, so do you want to know why each of them was recalled?Read more!
Rapex Report 06/12/2019
Rapex Report December 2019 - December started with major turbulence in the Rapex Report. A total of 100 items were withdrawn, 5 of them in the cosmetics category:
- 4 skin lightening creams and lotions, of different origins and brands, but all of them at the request of the Norwegian and Lithuanian authorities, because they contained mercury o formic acid.
- And an eyelash cream serum that Germany and Slovenia have withdrawn because it contains among its ingredients tretiprost ethyl, reserved for ophthalmological use and must be used under the supervision of an ophthalmologist.
In addition, another cosmetic, notified under the category of Toys, was withdrawn: a children's make-up set whose paintings contained traces of Chromium VI and which has been banned because it does not comply with the Toy Safety Directive.
Rapex Report 13/12/2019
The second Rapex Report was not as devastating for consumer products as a whole: only 40 articles were withdrawn, none of them at the request of the Spanish authorities. However, the number of banned cosmetics rose to 8, representing 201 TTP3T of the alerts in that report, a percentage well above the usual 5-61 TTP3T.
In this case, the 8 notified cosmetics were skin whitening creams and lotions. And despite being of different brands and origins - 2 from China, 1 from France and 5 from Pakistan - they were notified by the same national authorities: the Norwegian authorities. And they all had the same reason for recall: they all contained traces of mercury, a metal which, if it accumulates in our bodies, causes damage to the kidneys, brain and nervous system.
Rapex Report 20/12/2019
Rapex Report December 2019 - The latest Rapex Report 2019, published on Friday 20 December, reported the withdrawal of 39 products from the euro area market. Of these, none were in the cosmetics sector.
In the aesthetics and self-care sector, In addition, we believe it is necessary to highlight the removal of several electrical appliances used in beauty salons -dryers, shavers, etc., which did not comply with the Low Voltage Directive 2014/35/EU.
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