EU Safety Gate · Report-2008-28
GROWING PET · Expanding toys – 1. Dinoinvasion Growing Pet;2. Wizardly Egg Growing Pet
The product poses a risk of choking because it expands by more than 50% in any direction and if a child swallows the toy, or part of it, contact with saliva or gastric juices will cause the toy to grow in size. The product does not comply with the Toys Directive and the relevant European standard EN 71.
- Published
- 18 July 2008
- Notifying authority
- Cyprus
- Catalog checked
- 30 July 2026
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Type of economic operator to whom the measure(s) were ordered: Other. Category of measure(s): Withdrawal from the market ordered by the authorities.. Date of entry into force: Unknown
Official source alertProduct identification
- Safety Gate reference
- 0777/08
- Model
- Unknown
Classification
- Category
- Toys
- Risk type
- Choking
- Country of origin
- People's Republic of China
Product description
expanding toys – 1 dinoinvasion growing pet;2 wizardly egg growing petbrand: growing pettype/number of model: unknowndescription: effigy of an egg which contains an expandable toy in the form of a dinosaur or a chicken the egg is packed in transparent plastic 1 the egg containing the dinosaur has the following markings: ‘growing pet’, ‘do not swallow’ and is attached to a label with the following inscriptions: "dinoinvasion they are back" ‘warning choking hazard-small parts, not for children under 3 years old’, instructions for use, 'ce mark", age restriction and "made in china" 2 the egg which contains the chicken has the following markings: ‘growing pet’, ‘do not swallow’ and is attached to a label with the following inscriptions: ‘growing pet’, ‘wizardly egg’, ’amusing, funny, novel’, ‘do not swallow’, ’warning: choking hazard-small parts, not for children under 3 years old’, ‘ce mark’, instructions for use, age restriction and ‘made in china’