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KiddosLand Crystal Slime sold via Amazon — chemical risk

UK OPSSSerious riskChemicalSold on AmazonFeb 6, 2025
Photo from the official notice: KiddosLand Crystal Slime sold via Amazon — chemical risk

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Hazard

The product presents a serious chemical risk, and fails to meet the relevant requirements, as the yellow slime was found to contain 978.4 ± 188.8mg/kg of migratable boron, giving a range of 789.6-1167.2mg/kg. For this category of material, the lower value of this range exceeds the maximum permissible concentration of 300mg/kg for boron. Ingestion or contact with an excessive quantity of boron may harm the health of children by damaging the reproductive system. The product does not meet the requirements of the Toys (Safety) Regulations 2011.

Remedy

The impacted batch has been destroyed (JHBK20240810000). The following batch number is not affected by the safety issue identified: JHBK202309300001.

Product safety report

Measures taken

  • Destruction of the product

Product description

A children’s craft kit including 24 different colours of slime, as well as glitter, coloured air-dry clay, candy toy moulds, small animal toys, packs of toy fruit slices, slime tools, packs of colourful foam balls and a drift bottle. Only the slime presents a chemical risk.

What should I do?

If you own this product, stop using it and follow the corrective action above: contact the retailer or supplier for a repair, replacement or refund. This notice was published by the UK Office for Product Safety and Standards.

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