The Repression of fraud recalled on Tuesday that products imitating foodstuffs, which can be tempting for children, are subject to "particularly careful monitoring".
The organization targets, for example, candles or soaps in the shape of fruit or pastries, or "magnets in the shape of macaroons".
The General Directorate for Competition, Consumption and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) notably recalled that several such products had been the subject in recent years of several "national alerts for the risk of domestic accidents".
They can “present risks of suffocation, poisoning, or perforation of the digestive tract”.
A decree unknown to professionals
In 2020, the DGCCRF conducted a survey in 2020 on products "at the distribution stage and sold on the Internet", making 270 visits to 244 establishments in France.
Out of 35 samples, it identified 27 situations of non-compliance and 19 dangerous products, "ie more than half of the panel".
The products have been withdrawn or recalled "on a voluntary basis" by professionals, recalls the organization.
"Professionals […] do not yet sufficiently master the applicable regulations" or even, for the most recent of them, "ignore its existence", judges the DGCCRF.
The regulation in question is the “Confusion Decree” of 1992, which applies to all products which are not food but could be confused with food.
These products represent a real danger, in particular for children, because of common characteristics such as "the shape, the smell, the color, the appearance, the packaging, the labeling, the volume or the size", explains the DGCCRF. .
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