4.8 Consent and Customer Information

Tattoo artist are mandatory to provide the consumer with complete, reliable and comprehensible information on the risks entailed by those practices, including the potential occurrence of sensitisation, care following the application of a tattoo, reversibility and removal of tattoos, and the advice of consulting a physician in case of medical complications [list required?] at least a day before getting informed consent on the procedure. The tattooist has to store the following information for 10 years as well to hand it to the client: Name of the client; date(s) of the tattooing procedure; for each ink used: the name and address of the manufacturer AND the person/company responsible for placing the product on the market, name of the ink colour, the batch number or other reference used by the manufacturer for batch identification, and the full list of ingredients.