{
  "alert_number": "A12/1844/19",
  "url": "https://recallarchive.com/alert/a12-1844-19",
  "official_notice": "https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/alertDetail/392377",
  "safety_gate_published": "2019-11-27",
  "weekly_report": {
    "year": 2019,
    "week": 49,
    "date": "2019-12-06"
  },
  "category": "Chemical products",
  "product": "Tattoo ink",
  "brand_as_notified": "Colour King",
  "brands": [
    {
      "name": "Colour King",
      "url": "https://recallarchive.com/brand/colourking"
    }
  ],
  "name": "Orange",
  "model": null,
  "batch": null,
  "barcode_as_notified": null,
  "barcodes": [],
  "description": "Orange tattoo ink in a transparent plastic bottle with a dispenser cap. The product was sold online (in particular via lightinthebox.com).",
  "production_dates": null,
  "risk_type": "Chemical",
  "risk": "The product contains 4-methyl-m-phenylenediamine (measured concentration 13mg/kg) and barium (measured concentration 5214 mg/kg). 4-methyl-m-phenylenediamine is an aromatic amines that can cause cancer, cell mutations and affect reproduction and it's also a skin sensitizing substance. Barium can have toxic effects on the body impairing muscle, kidney and heart activity, leading to arrythmia, paralysis or gastrointestinal alterations.The Council of Europe Resolution ResAP (2008)1 on requirements and criteria for the safety of tattoos and permanent make-up, recommends that aromatic amines with carcinogenic, mutagenic, reprotoxic or sensitising properties shouldn't be present in tattoos and permanent make-up products and that barium does not exceed 50 mg/kg.",
  "risk_level": "Serious risk",
  "measures": [
    {
      "measure": "Notifying about the risk",
      "operator": "Other",
      "ordered": false,
      "from": "30 Oct 2019"
    }
  ],
  "measures_as_published": "Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Other\nCategory of measure(s): Notifying about the risk\nDate of entry into force: 30/10/2019",
  "company_recall_code": null,
  "recall_page": null,
  "online_marketplaces": [
    "LightInTheBox"
  ],
  "notifying_country": "Finland",
  "country_of_origin": "People's Republic of China",
  "alert_type": "Consumer",
  "counterfeit": false,
  "official_record": {
    "barcodes": [],
    "batches": [],
    "models": []
  },
  "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."
}