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The following notice has been issued by the Office for Product Safety and Standards.

Product
Child Life Vest with Survival Whistle for 2-12 Years (sold via AliExpress)

Type
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) - Life Jacket / buoyancy aid

Country of origin
China

Product description
A black and fluorescent yellow vest style life jacket with three 25 mm waist belts with plastic buckles and a whistle attached via an orange chord.

AliExpress ID
1005002919116214

Listing name
Shenzhen Junkaisheng Technology Co Ltd Child Life Vest Kids Swimming Boating Skiing Drifting Safety Life Jacket Vest Survival Suit with Survival Whistle for 2-12 Years

Hazard
The product was not supplied with the required compliance documentation or markings to demonstrate that they have been adequately conformity assessed. Mandatory third-party conformity assessment by a body authorised for PPE is required by the relevant Regulations for those products which protect against more serious risks, the absence of such independent assessment for such a product may increase the risk to the consumer that the product may not perform as expected when relied upon as a buoyancy aid. There is also no minimum or maximum user's mass stated.

The product does not meet the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2016/425 on Personal Protective Equipment or the Personal Protective Equipment (Enforcement) Regulations 2018.

Corrective action
OPSS has required that the products are recalled from end users.

The listing has been removed by the online marketplace (AliExpress).

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