EU Safety Gate · Report-2007-47
Westside · Fluorescent straws
The product poses a risk of choking because the light capsule can come out of the straw easily after only moderate sucking. As it may be foreseen that both children and adults could chew on or suck a straw relatively hard, the risk of problems in swallowing or breathing and therefore of choking is very high. Two accidents involving children in Austria have been reported. The light capsules were sucked out of the straw and swallowed by the children.
- Published
- 30 November 2007
- Notifying authority
- Austria
- Catalog checked
- 30 July 2026
Check the authority measure and original alert.
Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Other. Category of measure(s): Voluntary withdrawal from the market by the importer.. Date of entry into force: Unknown
Official source alertProduct identification
- Safety Gate reference
- 1227/07
- Model
- VOG No: 619332, Article No: 24565059
- Check-digit validated barcodes
- 24565059
Classification
- Category
- Gadgets
- Risk type
- Choking
- Country of origin
- People's Republic of China
Product description
Transparent, light milky-white plastic straws, each with a small moveable liquid-filled capsule inside. To ensure that the capsule does not come out of the straw while drinking, there are three indentations at either end, reducing the internal diameter of the straw. Pack of six in various colours.