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Face-painting kit, green face-paint compact and yellow face-paint compact – Early Learning Centre

Serious risk Chemical

Published by Safety Gate 7 Feb 2008In the weekly report of 8 Feb 2008 (week 5, 2008)Safety Gate noticeJSON
latest report: week 43, 30 Oct 2026checked 6 min agoSource: EU Safety Gate
Product
Face-painting kit, green face-paint compact and yellow face-paint compact
Brand
Early Learning Centre (3 alerts)
Brand as notified
Early Learning Centre (ELC)
Type / model
Face-painting kit product reference: 110302, green product reference: 100377, yellow product reference: 100381.
Description
Face-painting kit has Early Learning Centre logo with a boy and girl dressed as an Indian and a Zebra on its packaging. The kit consists of 8 face paints, 4 stencils, sponge and brush applicators. Green and yellow are single face-paint compacts.
Risk
These products pose a chemical risk because of the contents of lead and chromium in the green and yellow face paints exceed the permissible levels. Measured levels 3450 ppm lead and 128 ppm chromium in the yellow face-paint.These products do not comply with the Toys Directive and the relevant European standard EN 71-3
Measures
  • Voluntary withdrawal from the market and recall from consumers by the importer
Notifying country
Ireland
Country of origin
People's Republic of China
Alert type
Consumer
Photos
Photo 1 of the product in Safety Gate alert 0171/08Photo 2 of the product in Safety Gate alert 0171/08
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Sources

  1. Safety Gate alert 0171/08
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  2. Safety Gate weekly report Report-2008-5 (XML)
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