RAPEX CHINA TOY COSMETICS WARNING
May 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SPANISH consumer protection authorities have banned the import of a China-made toy novelty make-up set branded 'Royal Make-up' and 'Geoffrey'. It has alerted the European Commission's RAPEX unsafe product warning system that the set has unsafe mesophilic aerobic microorganisms, mould and yeast contamination counts, breaking the European Union cosmetics and toys directives and Spanish national rules.
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SPANISH consumer protection authorities have banned the import of a China-made toy novelty make-up set branded 'Royal Make-up' and 'Geoffrey'. It has alerted the European Commission's RAPEX unsafe product warning system that the set has unsafe mesophilic aerobic microorganisms, mould and yeast contamination counts, breaking the European Union cosmetics and toys directives and Spanish national rules.
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