{
  "alert_number": "1714/10",
  "url": "https://recallarchive.com/alert/1714-10",
  "official_notice": "https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/alertDetail/-17980",
  "safety_gate_published": "2010-11-18",
  "weekly_report": {
    "year": 2010,
    "week": 46,
    "date": "2010-11-19"
  },
  "category": "Other - Food-imitating products",
  "product": "Crystal balls - Seven Color Crystal Boll – Bio Gel",
  "brand_as_notified": "Unknown",
  "brands": [],
  "name": null,
  "model": "Art 2-830-008; Barcode 6 816285612586",
  "batch": null,
  "barcode_as_notified": null,
  "barcodes": [],
  "description": "Multicoloured and transparent balls with initial diameter of 0.3 cm or 0.4 cm which can absorb water to reach a diameter of 1 cm, in transparent plastic packaging with a coloured cardboard label marked \"Microsfere Seven Color Crystal Boll Gel, MADE in CHINA, Designed by Korea\" and instructions in English only.",
  "production_dates": null,
  "risk_type": "Choking",
  "risk": "The product poses a risk of choking because the balls can be mistaken for sweets by children and placed into the mouth. The balls expand rapidly on contact with water and could therefore partially or completely obstruct the airway if accidentally swallowed or if they enter the respiratory tract.",
  "risk_level": "Serious risk",
  "measures": [
    {
      "measure": "Seizure of the products, withdrawal from the market and recall from consumers ordered by the authorities",
      "operator": "Other",
      "ordered": true,
      "from": null
    }
  ],
  "measures_as_published": "Type of economic operator to whom the measure(s) were ordered: Other\nCategory of measure(s): Seizure of the products, withdrawal from the market and recall from consumers ordered by the authorities.\nDate of entry into force: Unknown",
  "company_recall_code": null,
  "recall_page": null,
  "online_marketplaces": [],
  "notifying_country": "Italy",
  "country_of_origin": "People's Republic of China",
  "alert_type": "Consumer",
  "counterfeit": false,
  "official_record": {
    "barcodes": [],
    "batches": [],
    "models": [
      "Art 2-830-008; Barcode 6 816285612586"
    ]
  },
  "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."
}