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Colour King Orange tattoo ink — chemical risk

EU Safety GateSerious riskChemicalDec 6, 2019
Photo from the official notice: Colour King Orange tattoo ink — chemical risk
Photo from the official notice: Colour King Orange tattoo ink — chemical risk

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

Hazard

The product contains 4-methyl-m-phenylenediamine (measured concentration 13mg/kg) and barium (measured concentration 5214 mg/kg). 4-methyl-m-phenylenediamine is an aromatic amines that can cause cancer, cell mutations and affect reproduction and it's also a skin sensitizing substance. Barium can have toxic effects on the body impairing muscle, kidney and heart activity, leading to arrythmia, paralysis or gastrointestinal alterations.The Council of Europe Resolution ResAP (2008)1 on requirements and criteria for the safety of tattoos and permanent make-up, recommends that aromatic amines with carcinogenic, mutagenic, reprotoxic or sensitising properties shouldn't be present in tattoos and permanent make-up products and that barium does not exceed 50 mg/kg.

Measures taken

  • Notifying about the risk — Other (30/10/2019)

Product description

Orange tattoo ink in a transparent plastic bottle with a dispenser cap. The product was sold online (in particular via lightinthebox.com).

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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