Every week, dedicated European portals (Safety Gate for the European Union, Safety Database for the United Kingdom) list the non-compliant and/or dangerous products detected on the market by the control authorities. Here are the cosmetic products that are subject to a recall or a marketing ban this week: ineffective and non-compliant hand disinfectants.
Hand disinfectant
Brand: Pilot 
Name: Pilot Dezinfekcijas lidzeklis
Barcode: 4752215002831
Batch number: 08.04.2020
• Country of origin: Latvia
• Notifying country: Sweden
Risk type: chemical
The product contains methanol (measured value: 7% by weight), which is acutely toxic to the central nervous system and to the eyes. Furthermore, the required hazard pictograms are missing.
Users have therefore no information on the toxicity and flammability of the product. The packaging is not fitted with child-resistant fastening.
Ingestion or contact with methanol may lead to blindness and death.
The product does not comply with the Biocidal Products and the Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP) Regulations.
Measures taken by economic operators: withdrawal of the product from the market (by retailer)
Hand disinfectant
Brand: Solenal 
Name: Solenal To Go
Barcode: 4260636050015
Batch number: 18032020
• Country of origin: Germany
• Notifying country: Germany
Risk type: health
The product contains too little active chlorine to be effective as disinfectant (measured value: less than 0.016 mg/g).
Therefore, it will not provide any disinfectant effect and thus not properly protect if not combined with additional measures.
The product does not comply with the Biocidal Products Regulation.
Measures taken by economic operators: ban on the marketing of the product and any accompanying measures, recall of the product from end users, warning consumers of the risks (by manufacturer)
Source
• Safety Gate: Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products - most recent alerts, Report 3, European Commission, January 22, 2021
