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

Product
Kids Universal Polyester Life Jacket (sold via AliExpress)

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

Country of origin
China

Product description
An orange and fluorescent yellow vest style buoyancy aid with twin black plastic buckles to the front and a red whistle attached with an orange cord.

AliExpress ID
1005002180761970

Listing name
Youth Kids Universal Polyester Life Jacket Swimming Boating Ski Vest Swimming Children Life Jacket Orange Light Yellow Whistle

Hazard
The product has been assessed as presenting a serious risk of drowning. The product was advertised as a life jacket, but once purchased was identified as a buoyancy aid (which does not provide the same level of protection). There was no intended user mass stated and it was identified that the minimum buoyancy for an adult user was not met.

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.

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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