Expanding toys
Serious risk Choking
- Product
- Expanding toys
- Brand
- Unknown
- Description
- 3 different types of expanding toys sold in bulk in clear plastic bags with no warnings or any other markings. The products are sold online (for example, via AliExpress).
- Risk
- The products expand in size by more than 50% when placed in water. If the small balls are put into the mouth by children and swallowed by children, they could expand causing fatal occlusion of the respiratory tract or intestinal blockage. The product does not comply with the requirements of the Toy Safety Directive and the relevant European standard EN 71-1.
- Measures
- Authority warning consumers of the risk · from 10 Sep 2018
- Removal of the products from the AliExpress platform · from 14 Sep 2018
- Online marketplace
- AliExpress
- Notifying country
- Finland
- Country of origin
- Unknown
- Alert type
- Consumer
- Photos
- Photos shown from the Safety Gate server (European Commission); not copied here.
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