Felt-tip pens
Grafix kids
- Case number
- 0866/09
- Category
- Stationery
- Type / Model
- 4 009017 050578 Article No 706019
- Audience
- Consumer
- Notifying country
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- Country of origin
- Unknown
- Published
- 2009-07-03
⚠️ Risk
The product poses a chemical risk because it contains benzene. The felt component in the black pen was found to contain 29.8 mg benzene/kg and the yellow pen 13.7 mg benzene/kg (limit value: 5 mg/kg of the weight of a toy). According to Directive 67/548/EEC, benzene is a Category 1 (R 45) carcinogen, a Category 2 (R 46) mutagen and poisonous (R 48/23/24/25).
Measures
Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): OtherCategory of measure(s): Voluntary withdrawal from the market and recall from consumers by the importer.Date of entry into force: Unknown