{
  "alert_number": "A12/1847/19",
  "url": "https://recallarchive.com/alert/a12-1847-19",
  "official_notice": "https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/alertDetail/394504",
  "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": "Intenze",
  "brands": [
    {
      "name": "Intenze",
      "url": "https://recallarchive.com/brand/intenze"
    }
  ],
  "name": "The Alex De Pase Series",
  "model": "Magenta",
  "batch": "Lot SS265",
  "barcode_as_notified": null,
  "barcodes": [],
  "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.",
  "production_dates": null,
  "risk_type": "Chemical",
  "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.",
  "risk_level": "Serious risk",
  "measures": [
    {
      "measure": "Withdrawal of the product from the market",
      "operator": "Distributor",
      "ordered": true,
      "from": "19 Nov 2019"
    },
    {
      "measure": "Withdrawal of the product from the market",
      "operator": "Distributor",
      "ordered": false,
      "from": "15 Oct 2019"
    },
    {
      "measure": "Warning consumers of the risks",
      "operator": "Distributor",
      "ordered": false,
      "from": "15 Oct 2019"
    }
  ],
  "measures_as_published": "Type of economic operator to whom the measure(s) were ordered: Distributor\nCategory of measure(s): Withdrawal of the product from the market\nDate of entry into force: 19/11/2019\nType of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Distributor\nCategory of measure(s): Withdrawal of the product from the market\nDate of entry into force: 15/10/2019\nType of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Distributor\nCategory of measure(s): Warning consumers of the risks\nDate of entry into force: 15/10/2019",
  "company_recall_code": null,
  "recall_page": null,
  "online_marketplaces": [],
  "notifying_country": "Finland",
  "country_of_origin": "United States",
  "alert_type": "Consumer",
  "counterfeit": false,
  "official_record": {
    "barcodes": [],
    "batches": [
      "Lot SS265"
    ],
    "models": [
      "Magenta"
    ]
  },
  "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."
}