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

Product
24H Outdoor Online Store Life Jacket (sold via AliExpress)

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

Brand
24H Outdoor Online Store

Country of origin
Unknown

Product description
Black floatation device with black straps for the user's arms and blue tag.

AliExpress ID
B09Z6NQT4J

Listing name
Professional Life Jacket Swimming Fishing Life Vest Manual Inflatable Adult Swimwear Water Sports Swimming Survival Jacket

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.

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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