{
  "alert_number": "0459/08",
  "url": "https://recallarchive.com/alert/0459-08",
  "official_notice": "https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/alertDetail/-13510",
  "safety_gate_published": "2008-04-24",
  "weekly_report": {
    "year": 2008,
    "week": 16,
    "date": "2008-04-25"
  },
  "category": "Hobby/sports equipment",
  "product": "Step machine",
  "brand_as_notified": "ENERGETICS – Lateral Thigh Trainer",
  "brands": [
    {
      "name": "ENERGETICS – Lateral Thigh Trainer",
      "url": "https://recallarchive.com/brand/energeticslateralthightrainer"
    }
  ],
  "name": null,
  "model": "Unknown",
  "batch": null,
  "barcode_as_notified": null,
  "barcodes": [],
  "description": "This recall involves a step-machine \"Lateral Thigh Trainer, LTT\", for personal training.  It is a so-called “open product”, meaning that an importer can order this product with his own label or brand. It is sold in red with black pedals that move up and down and from side to side. There is a black sticker with a white silhouette in a yellow frame on the middle of the machine. Weight approx 14 kg; size: 55 x 25 x 40 cm.",
  "production_dates": null,
  "risk_type": "Chemical",
  "risk": "The product poses a chemical risk because there is a mercury switch inside containing approx. 56mg of mercury. Mercury is regarded as particularly hazardous and constitutes a threat to health as well as to the environment. Mercury has adverse effects, particularly on the nervous system and its development.",
  "risk_level": "Serious risk",
  "measures": [
    {
      "measure": "Voluntary withdrawal from the market by the importer",
      "operator": "Other",
      "ordered": false,
      "from": null
    }
  ],
  "measures_as_published": "Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Other\nCategory of measure(s): Voluntary withdrawal from the market by the importer.\nDate of entry into force: Unknown",
  "company_recall_code": null,
  "recall_page": null,
  "online_marketplaces": [],
  "notifying_country": "Sweden",
  "country_of_origin": "People's Republic of China",
  "alert_type": "Consumer",
  "counterfeit": false,
  "official_record": {
    "barcodes": [],
    "batches": [],
    "models": [
      "Unknown"
    ]
  },
  "licence": "Weekly-report fields CC0 1.0; official_record and counterfeit: © European Union, CC BY 4.0",
  "source": "EU Safety Gate. recallarchive is independent and not affiliated with the European Commission; the official notice is authoritative."
}