The alerts Rapex On Friday 6 May last, 36 products were withdrawn from the EU market, a number fairly close to the weekly average. Half of these items, as usual, came from China. However, we would like to point out that on this occasion, the Spanish authorities have notified up to 20 bans, an unusually high number, which exceeds the sum of warnings from the rest of the euro area countries and represents a 55.6% of total notices of this week .
Among the items recalled in our country were several retail products - a swimming costume for men, 3 sandals for women, 3 dresses for babies -, an electrical appliance, a towel rack for the bathroom, a couple of car models -Skoda and Maserati-, 9 toys, and a tube for making soap bubbles, which Rapex has also categorised as a toy, and which we will talk about later.
In relation to the cosmetics sector, According to Rapex, there has been only one recall: a hair dye, manufactured by the company Sta-Sof-Fro in South Africa, which has been banned for containing sodium perborate, an ingredient not permitted by the EU. Regulation.At the M. Camps Technical Office, we believe that the soap bubble tube, which has been withdrawn because it does not comply with the Toy Safety Direction as it contains mesophilic aerobic bacteria, it would also be a cosmetic, and in addition to being in breach of the toy regulation, it should also be withdrawn for non-compliance with the Regulation.