(ANSA) - Venice, December 30 - Nearly 215,000 pieces of
costume jewelry were seized by Italian finance police on
Tuesday.
They said the items contained a dangerously high nickel
content and lacked the minimum security requirements for
commercial sale in Italy.
The unusually shiny items, imported from China and worth
nearly 600,000 euros in all, had already been placed on store
shelves and had been falsely marked "nickel free".
Tests were being conducted on the merchandise to determine
the origin of production.
Hazardous costume jewelry from China seized by police
Nearly 215,000 items found with high nickel content