InfoCons Consumer Protection Alert: Handfaste – Hair slide
Name: Viking
Category: 10
Date: 2025-02-21
Product Category: Jewellery
Risk Type: Chemical
Danger: The product has an excessive concentration of cadmium (measured value 32% by weight). Cadmium is harmful to human health because it accumulates in the body, can damage the kidneys and bones and it may cause cancer. The product does not comply with the REACH Regulation.
Measures: Type of economic operator to whom the measure(s) were ordered: ImporterCategory of measure(s): Import rejected at borderDate of entry into force: 04/02/2025
Description: Glossy metal hair slide with a wooden pin, approximately five centimetres long.
Notifying Country: Sweden
Country of Origin: People’s Republic of China
Alert Type: Consumer
Alert Level: Serious risk
