PEGAZOO brand children's pendants

Product description

This recall involves all PEGAZOO brand children's pendants. The necklaces have brightly coloured wooden pendants in various animal shapes, with a decorative metal bead and a metal clasp.

The pendants with wooden beads are not subject to the recall, only the necklaces with the metal bead.

Hazard identified

Health Canada's sampling and testing program revealed that the bead above the necklace contains lead in excess of allowable limits.

Under the Children's Jewellery Regulations of the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act, it is illegal to import, advertise or sell jewellery items that appeal primarily to children under 15 years of age and contain more than 600 mg/kg total lead.

Lead is very toxic to children, even at low exposure levels. Children can ingest lead when they chew, suck, or swallow jewellery items containing lead which can cause damage to their bodies. Potential health effects associated with exposure to high levels of lead include vomiting, diarrhea, convulsions, coma or even death.

Neither Health Canada nor Créations Pierre Charbonneau has received any reports of incidents or illnesses related to the use of these products.

For more information on the risks and symptoms of lead exposure, visit Health Canada's website: It's Your Health: Effects of Lead on Human Health and About lead and cadmium hazards in children's jewellery.

Number sold

Approximately 1,649 units of the recalled products were sold in Canada.

Time period sold

The recalled pendants were sold from 2005 to September 2012.

Place of origin

Made in Canada.

Companies

Manufacturer

Créations Pierre Charbonneau Inc.
Mirabel
Quebec
CANADA