Various Anex Jewellery

Product description

This recall involves 3 pieces of jewellery sold under the brand name "Anex".

• Item #A2-353 and UPC 100200103539: A necklace with a silver-coloured chain with a metallic clasp and a metallic diamond-shaped pendant. The necklace is packaged with rhinestone earrings. The pendant has rhinestones surrounding a coloured, plastic jewel.
• Item #A2-364 and UPC 100200103645: A necklace with a silver-coloured chain with a metallic clasp and a metallic pendant. The pendant says either "Angel," "Friend," "Love," or "Sexygirl."
• Item #A6-113: A toe ring made of a silver-coloured band with a flower on top. The flower has different coloured plastic petals and a rhinestone center.

Hazard identified

Health Canada's sampling and evaluation program has revealed that the recalled pieces of jewellery contains lead in excess of the allowable limits. In addition, the necklace with the various word pendants contains cadmium in excess of guidance levels proposed recently by Health Canada.

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 and cadmium are known to be very toxic metals, especially for children. A range of serious health effects have been associated with exposure to lead and cadmium, including anemia, vomiting, diarrhea, serious brain injury, convulsions, coma, as well as effects related to the liver, kidneys, heart and immune system. In extreme cases, there have been deaths.

Children can ingest lead or cadmium when they chew, suck, or swallow jewellery items containing these metals.

Neither Health Canada nor Anex Imports Ltd. has received any reports of incidents or illnesses related to the use of this product.

For more information on the risks and symptoms of lead exposure, visit Health Canada's: It's Your Health: Effects of Lead on Human Health. For more information on risks and symptoms for cadmium exposure, also visit Health Canada Advises Consumers of Lead and Cadmium Hazard in Children's Jewellery.

Number sold

Approximately 1850 units of the recalled jewellery items were sold at various dollar and discount stores across Canada.

Time period sold

The recalled products were sold in Canada from October 2007 to December 2011.

Place of origin

Manufactured in China.

Companies

Importer

Anex Imports Ltd.
Edmonton
Alberta
CANADA