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CREACTIVA Magic Pens - Colour Pens - Original felt-tip pens — chemical risk

EU Safety GateSerious riskChemicalApr 18, 2014
Photo from the official notice: CREACTIVA Magic Pens - Colour Pens - Original felt-tip pens — chemical risk
Photo from the official notice: CREACTIVA Magic Pens - Colour Pens - Original felt-tip pens — chemical risk
Photo from the official notice: CREACTIVA Magic Pens - Colour Pens - Original felt-tip pens — chemical risk

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

Hazard

The product poses a chemical risk because the brown ink releases an excessive amount of copper (measured value: 309 mg/kg).The product does not comply with the requirements of the Toy Safety Directive and the relevant European standard EN 71-3.

Measures taken

  • Recall of the product from end users — Other (01/03/2014)
  • Destruction of the product — Other
  • Withdrawal of the product from the market — Other (01/03/2014)

Product description

Colourful box with 20 pens, 10 of which are magic pens (changing colours) and 10 are colour pens.

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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