Cake slice novelty soaps
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Dunnes Home and The Bath Shop sold novelty soaps designed to look like cake slices. Each soap consisted of a white top and bottom layer resembling cream, a brown or orange center layer, and small detachable pieces on top meant to represent chocolate or fruit. These small pieces, along with other components of the soap, can fit entirely into a small parts cylinder and pose a choking hazard, particularly to children. Additionally, the products could be mistaken for actual food and consumed.
The soaps do not comply with European Directive 87/357/EEC, which prohibits products designed to look like something other than what they are when doing so endangers consumer health or safety. The seller voluntarily stopped selling the product. The source does not specify what action affected consumers should take.
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The product poses a risk of choking because the novelty soap consists of an imitation heart shape and two square pieces of chocolate and orange pieces that may be confused for a real piece of chocolate and fruit. All of the loose parts fit entirely into the small parts cylinder and therefore present a risk to consumer safety, in particular to children (choking, obstruction of digestive tract).The products do not comply with the Directive 87/357/EEC on products which, appearing to be other than they are, endanger the health or safety of consumers.
Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): OtherCategory of measure(s): Voluntary stop of sales.Date of entry into force: Unknown
Two fragrant, cake slice, novelty soaps in plastic wrapping. Bottom and top layer are white and could be mistaken for cream. The centre is brown, like chocolate, in one soap and orange in the other. On the top of the soap slice are two small pieces of square brown chocolate and a pink heart for the chocolate slice and pieces of orange for the orange slice. No country of origin, stipulated on the packaging. Dunnes Home and also the Bath Shop are indicated on the packaging. Model: 5099012791384 Notifying country: Ireland
Official record: EU Safety Gate ↗
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