Sweden
Portable karaoke set (listed as Portable Karaoke Speaker Kits, model K1) consisting of a speaker with two wireless microphones and a USB cable, supplied in a cardboard box and originating from China. It was removed because solders and the cable’s plastic contain excessive lead, cadmium, DEHP, DBP and short‑chain chlorinated paraffins, posing risks to health and the environment and breaching RoHS and POP rules. The item has been removed from the online marketplace (voluntary, distributor).
What's being recalled
Karaoke set with two wireless microphones and a USB cable.
Packaging: Cardboard box
Country of origin: People's Republic of China.
How to identify it
Safety Gate alert SR/02662/26
Product name on the item: Portable Karaoke Speaker Kits
Type or model: K1
The hazard
The solders in the product have excessive concentrations of lead and cadmium (measured values up to 37,9% and 0.175% by weight, respectively). Lead poses a risk to the environment and cadmium bio-accumulates and poses a risk to the environment.
The plastic material of the cable has excessive concentrations of bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), dibutyl phthalate (DBP), lead and short chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs) (measured values: 2.47%, 3.25%, 0.25% and 2.24% by weight, respectively).
These phthalates poses a risk to human health and the environment.
SCCPs persist in the environment, are toxic to aquatic organisms at low concentrations and bio-accumulate in wildlife and humans, posing a risk to human health and the environment.
The product does not comply with the requirements of the Commission Directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS Directive) nor with the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP) Regulation.
What to do
Removal from online marketplace (voluntary, distributor).
The official notice
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