EU Safety Gate · Report-2010-1
Bauer · Soft toy - Tiere mit Herz, für kleine Hände das Größte ("Animals with heart: the greatest for little hands")
The product poses a risk of choking because the sewn-on wooden discs, which fit into the small part cylinder, can be easily detached (at a force of only 44 N). The product does not comply with the Toys Directive and with the relevant European standard EN 71.
- Published
- 08 January 2010
- Notifying authority
- Austria
- Catalog checked
- 30 July 2026
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Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Other. Category of measure(s): Voluntary corrective actions taken by the manufacturer.. Date of entry into force: Unknown
Official source alertProduct identification
- Safety Gate reference
- 1696/09
- Model
- EAN code: 400 3402 150003
- Check-digit validated barcodes
- 4003402150003
Classification
- Category
- Toys
- Risk type
- Choking
- Country of origin
- Germany
Product description
Soft toy in the form of a (pink) pig with black button eyes and a wooden disc sewn on at the neck. Stuffed with plastic fibre wadding; velcro fastening on the underside, behind which is a white, cuboid, bolted plastic box containing inter alia a pressure switch and a bolted battery compartment for 3 button cells. Pig: length ca. 14 cm; wooden disc: diameter 30 mm, height 45 mm. When the stomach is pressed, the words Ich bin ein Schwein ("I am a pig") and a grunting noise are heard.