Level: Serious risk
Type: Consumer products
Ref.: A12/1354/16
Notifying country: Sweden
Country of origin: Hong Kong
Counterfeit:
Risk type: Environment
Product: Digital thermometer
Product name: Inne-Ute Min-Max
Product description: A digital thermometer for measuring temperature inside and outside.
Brand: TERMOMETERFABRIKEN VIKING
Category: Electrical appliances and equipment
Type/number of model: 185
Batch number/Barcode: 7316040001857
OECD Portal Category: 78000000 - Electrical Supplies
Risk: The black cable contains up to 1.1% by weight short chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs).
The placing on the market and use of articles containing SCCPs is banned. SCCPs persist in the environment, are toxic to aquatic organisms at low concentrations and bioaccumulate in wildlife and humans, posing a risk to human health and the environment.
The product does not comply with the Regulation on persistent organic pollutants (POP Regulation).
Measures adopted by notifying country: Measures taken by economic operators: Withdrawal of the product from the market, Withdrawal of the product from the market (By: Importer, Retailer)
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