Unsafe Goods Notices (Bans) - Current Notices

There are Unsafe Goods Notices for:

• Tian Mao Water Colour Paints Sets
• Lead in Children's Toys
• Hot water bottles
• Candles with lead in the wicks and candlewicks containing lead
• Pistol crossbows

Unsafe Goods (Tian Mao Water Colour Paints Sets) Notice 2008

Prohibits the supply of:

• water colour paint or painting sets for art and crafts packaged under the name Tian Mao Panda brand
• water colour paint or painting sets with the product code TM-9018: and
• water colour paint or painting sets for art and crafts featuring the identified logo:

First banned 3 April 2008 (The unsafe goods notice lasts for 18 months from this date)

Unsafe Goods (Lead in Children’s Toys) Notice 2007

Prohibits the supply of:

• Children’s toys which contain lead in their accessible parts at a migration level greater than 90mg/kg of toy material. These are declared to be unsafe goods.

Migration level means the value calculated after testing in accordance with the procedures and result interpretation provisions of the Australian/ New Zealand Standard AS/NZS ISO 8124.3:2003 entitled “Safety of toys, Part 3: Migration of certain elements”.

First banned 20 September 2007.

Unsafe Goods (Hot Water Bottles) Notice 2007

Prohibits the supply of:

• PVC and Rubber hot water bottles that do not:
  • meet BS1970:2001 Hot water bottles manufactured from rubber and PVC specification
• Rubber and (from 25 November 2007) PVC hot water bottles must also:
  • show compliance of less than 36 months old with BS1970:2001 or BS:1970:2006 from a laboratory accredited to ISO17025.

Rubber hot water bottles that did not meet the British Standard were first banned 26 November 2004.

Importer's Declaration of Conformity

Importers of hot water bottles (including hot water bottles made from PVC from 25 November 2007) will be required to produce to the New Zealand Customs Service a:

• Test certificate, from an accredited laboratory to ISO 17025, certifying that the hot water bottles comply with British Standard BS 1970:2001 or BS 1970:2006 Hot water bottles manufactured from rubber and PVC Specification. The certificate must be less than 36 months old; and

Statutory declaration stating that the documents produced relate to the hot water bottles being imported. A sample copy of the declaration is available in Adobe Acrobat format (45 KB) (instructions for obtaining the viewer).

You will have to supply the statutory declaration to the New Zealand Customs Service to declare conformity to the requirement of the Unsafe Goods (Hot Water Bottles) Notice 2007.

Unsafe Goods (Candles and Candlewicks) Notice 2001

Prohibits the supply of:

• Candles containing greater than 0.06% lead by weight in their wicks
• Candlewicks containing greater than 0.06% lead by weight.

Replaced the Unsafe Goods (Candles and Candlewicks) Notice 2001 which did not allow for tolerances of accidental and possibly unavoidable trace elements of lead and which came in to effect in June 2000.

Supply prohibited indefinitely from January 2002.

Unsafe Goods (Pistol Crossbows) Notice 1988

Prohibits the supply of:

• The Ninja pistol crossbow
• The Barnett Phantom crossbow
• Any pistol crossbow, which does not have a safety-catch on the firing mechanism.

First banned April 1988, and supply prohibited indefinitely from 20 October 1989.

Unsafe Goods (No Holes Tongue Stud) Notice 2005

Prohibits the supply of:

• No Holes Tongue Stud or similar:
  • a small plastic bead with an opening on one side only, which acts to create a vacuum; and
  • is intended for use as jewellery on the human tongue, without the need for piercing.

First banned 9 December 2005 - (Not Current - Expired 2007).