Which jewellery products were recalled in the EU between 25 September and 2 October 2026?

EU Safety Gate published six serious alerts on earrings, bracelets and piercing jewellery, four for cadmium and two for nickel release, notified by Sweden, Finland, France and Germany.

What is the common risk in these jewellery recalls?

Cadmium concentrations of 9.5% to 77% by weight against the REACH Annex XVII Entry 23 limit of 0.01%, and nickel release above the REACH limit, in fashion and piercing jewellery mostly originating in China.

Who must check their jewellery stock?

EU importers, distributors, retailers and online marketplaces of fashion and piercing jewellery, including the alerted brands Amanda B and XUPING JEWELRY.

What happens if a recalled jewellery product stays on sale?

National market-surveillance authorities order recall from end users, withdrawal from the market and corrective measures, and impose REACH non-compliance penalties under the Member State penalty regime.

EU: 6 cadmium jewellery recalls, Sept 25 to Oct 2 2026: what to check

EU Safety Gate published six serious jewellery alerts between 25 September and 2 October 2026, four for cadmium measured at 9.5%, 19%, 37% and 77% by weight and two for nickel release measured at 9.01 and 29 µg/cm²/week. The alerts, notified by Sweden, Finland, France and Germany under the REACH Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, cover earrings, bracelets and piercing jewellery, four of them originating in the People's Republic of China.

EU importers, distributors, retailers and online marketplaces of fashion and piercing jewellery must immediately check stock and online listings against the six alerted products and obtain supplier cadmium and nickel-release test reports verifying REACH Annex XVII conformity, or face recall from end users, withdrawal from the market, corrective measures ordered by national market-surveillance authorities and REACH non-compliance penalties under the Member State penalty regime.

Window : 25 September to 2 October 2026
Alerts : 6 alerts, all serious, notified by Sweden (3), Finland, France and Germany
Risk : chemical, cadmium in 4 alerts (9.5%, 19%, 37%, 77% by weight) and nickel release in 2 alerts (9.01 and 29 µg/cm²/week)
Product family : jewellery, earrings, bracelets and piercing jewellery
Legal basis : REACH Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, Annex XVII (cited in all 6 alerts)
Official source : EU Safety Gate alert 10119055 (2 October 2026)

What was recalled

Date	Product	Brand	Risk	Measure
2 October 2026	Piercing jewellery	Unknown	Chemical	Recall and withdrawal
2 October 2026	Earrings	Amanda B	Chemical	Corrective measures ordered
2 October 2026	Earrings	Unknown	Chemical	Withdrawal from market
2 October 2026	Bracelet	Unknown	Chemical	Withdrawal from market
2 October 2026	Bracelet	Unknown	Chemical	Withdrawal from market
25 September 2026	Earrings	XUPING JEWELRY	Chemical	Recall and withdrawal

The pattern

Four of the six alerts measured cadmium concentrations of 9.5%, 19%, 37% and 77% by weight, against the REACH Annex XVII Entry 23 limit of 0.01% by weight for cadmium in jewellery, hundreds to thousands of times the permitted maximum. The two remaining alerts measured nickel release at 9.01 and 29 µg/cm²/week in earrings in prolonged skin contact. All six alerts cite the REACH Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 for non-compliance.

Four of the six products originate in the People's Republic of China and two have an unknown origin; Sweden notified three alerts, Finland, France and Germany one each. The wave tracks the persistent influx of cheap fashion and piercing jewellery sold into the EU through online marketplaces, the recurring root cause the Safety Gate data and the REACH committee records identify for cadmium and nickel jewellery non-compliance.

Who is exposed

EU importers of fashion and piercing jewellery sourced from China, EU retailers and distributors of costume jewellery (earrings, bracelets, piercing jewellery), and EU online marketplaces listing third-party jewellery imports are directly exposed, because the obligations under REACH Annex XVII and the Market Surveillance Regulation attach to whoever places the non-compliant article on the EU market. The alerted brands Amanda B (notified by Finland) and XUPING JEWELRY (notified by Germany) are named in the alerts; unbranded importers carry the same liability when their supplier cannot prove conformity.

What to check now

Check stock and online listings against the six alerted products and remove matching earrings, bracelets and piercing jewellery from sale.
Obtain supplier cadmium test reports verifying the REACH Annex XVII Entry 23 limit of 0.01% by weight for each jewellery SKU.
Obtain supplier nickel-release test reports for earrings and piercing jewellery in prolonged skin contact.
Verify the conformity documentation (test certificates and EU declaration of conformity) for imported jewellery batches.
Trace the supplier and country of origin for unbranded jewellery, four of the six alerted products originating in the People's Republic of China.
Notify the national market-surveillance authority and withdraw any recalled product found in stock under the REACH penalty regime.

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