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These products, sold under the brand names Vu-Du, Tessier-Ashpool, Aether, and PopStar, are bottles containing isoamyl nitrite and pose serious health risks through inhalation or ingestion. The substance can cause immediate effects including headaches, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and dangerously low blood pressure, as well as severe complications such as fainting, shortness of breath, cyanosis, methemoglobinemia, visual disturbances, and in rare cases sudden death. Long-term or repeated exposure risks include serious skin reactions, blood disorders, and neurological effects ranging from temporary paralysis to acute psychosis and coma.
The products are sold in brown glass bottles—either 50-milliliter or 10-milliliter sizes with black caps and labeled with the product names and hazard symbols for harmful and highly flammable substances. Authorities have ordered seizure of these products. The source does not specify what actions affected consumers should take.
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The product poses a chemical risk because it contains isoamyl nitrite which is classified as harmful by inhalation and if swallowed. In humans, the adverse effects resulting from inhalation of isoamyl nitrite, as well as other substances in the alkyl nitrite family, include headaches, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, hypotension, restlessness and tachycardia; it can cause cyanosis, fainting, shortness of breath, muscle weakness, methemoglobinemia, visual disturbances (due to the increase in intraocular pressure) and increase in intracranial pressure. It may also lead to headaches, acute psychosis, temporary hemiplegia, coma and, in rare cases, sudden death. There have also been reports of haemolytic anaemia and, in some patients, formation of Heinz bodies. Inhalation can also trigger serious and extensive dermatitis.
Type of economic operator to whom the measure(s) were ordered: OtherCategory of measure(s): Seizure of the products by the authorities.Date of entry into force: Unknown
1. AETHER: The container is a brown glass 50-ml bottle with a black plastic cap. On the front of the bottle is a light-coloured label with a picture of a man wearing a straw cowboy hat and mirrored sunglasses. Underneath the picture, on a black band, appears the name of the product, Aether, with the first letter in light blue and the other letters in white. On the back of the bottle, against a white background, appear the two symbols indicating that the substance is harmful (black diagonal cross on an orange background) and highly flammable (black flame on an orange background) above the corresponding captions “harmful” and “highly flammable”. Underneath these symbols appears the following text: R 12-19-22-66-67; S 9-16-29-33; N° CE 200-467- 2. 2. POPSTAR: The container is a brown glass 10-ml bottle with a black cap. The beige-coloured label, with geometric leaf shapes in shades of grey, has a horizontal band that is orange on the front and fades into blue and violet on the back, and a vertical black stripe bearing the word ‘PopStar’ in white and yellow (gradating into orange) lettering. At the bottom of the stripe is a rainbow-coloured circle outlined in white. The label on the back of the bottle bears various captions: Commercial name: PopStar; isoamyl nitrite (97%) stabilised. The warnings for use of the product are also present, as are the name, address and e-mail of the importer/distributor, the risk phrases, the number CE 203-770-8 and the caption “Labelled in accordance with EC standards”. At the top are the two symbols indicating that the substance is harmful (black diagonal cross on an orange background) and highly flammable (black flame on an orange background) above the corresponding captions “harmful” and “highly flammable”. Model: Unknown Notifying country: Italy
Official record: EU Safety Gate ↗
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