Choking

0686/06

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Case number
0686/06
Category
Decorative articles
Type / Model
238000899
Audience
Consumer
Notifying country
🇩🇪 Germany
Country of origin
🇮🇹 Italy
Published
2006-10-27

⚠️ Risk

The product may be mistaken for food (sweets) or mistakenly used as ice cubes. It has sharp edges and can be swallowed in whole. The product thereby poses a risk of ingestion, health hazard from choking and displacement of the digestive tract. Investigation regarding the safety of similar products is pending.

Measures

Type of economic operator to whom the measure(s) were ordered: OtherCategory of measure(s): Sales ban and recall from consumers ordered by the authority.Date of entry into force: Unknown

Clear ice cubes - irregular lumps of transparent, hard, uncoloured plastic, with sharp edges sometimes running to a point.