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Dancing Santa: Shake Your Booty christmas decoration — environment risk

EU Safety GateSerious riskEnvironmentNov 1, 2024
Photo from the official notice: Dancing Santa: Shake Your Booty christmas decoration — environment risk
Photo from the official notice: Dancing Santa: Shake Your Booty christmas decoration — environment risk

Photos from the official notice: EU Safety Gate (European Commission) · image rights

Hazard

The solders in the product have an excessive concentration of lead. (measured value 81.5% % by weight). The plastic material of the product has an excessive concentration of bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) and diisobutyl phthalate (DIBP) (measured values: up to 6.9 % and up to 0.77 % by weight, respectively). The product has an excessive concentration of short chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs) (measured value: up to 1.36 % by weight).Lead poses a risk to the environment. DEHP and DIBP poses a risk to human health and the environment.SCCPs persist in the environment, are toxic to aquatic organisms at low concentrations and bio-accumulate in wildlife and humans, posing a risk to human health and the environment. The product does not comply with the requirements of the Directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS 2 Directive) nor with the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP) Regulation.

Measures taken

  • Withdrawal of the product from the market — Importer (30/08/2024)

Product description

Dancing christmas decoration in the shape of Santa Claus

What should I do?

If you own this product, stop using it and check the official notice for what the seller or authority advises (return, refund, repair or disposal). Measures listed here were reported by national authorities to the EU Safety Gate system.

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