Tattoo ink – Intenze “The Alex De Pase Series”

Serious risk Chemical

Product

Tattoo ink

Brand

Intenze (79 alerts)

Name

The Alex De Pase Series

Type / model

Magenta

Batch

Lot SS265

Description

29,6 ml of magenta tattoo ink in a transparent plastic bottle fitted with a dispensing nozzle and a screw-top. The product was also sold online.

Risk

The product contains the aromatic amines 4-methyl-m-phenylenediamine, o-anisidine (measured values: 13 mg/kg and 7 mg/kg, respectively) and an excessive amount of barium (measured value: 52 mg/kg). 4-methyl-m-phenylenediamine is a skin sensitiser and, as o-anisidine, may cause cancer. Barium can be easily absorbed and 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 should neither be present in tattoos and permanent make-up products nor released from azo-colourants and that barium does not exceed 50 mg/kg.

Measures

• Withdrawal of the product from the market · ordered on the distributor · from 19 Nov 2019
• Withdrawal of the product from the market · by the distributor · from 15 Oct 2019
• Warning consumers of the risks · by the distributor · from 15 Oct 2019

Notifying country

Finland

Country of origin

United States

Alert type

Consumer

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