NEW DELHI: A fact-finding team from Ikea last week visited India as part of an internal probe into the alleged presence of excessive chemicals in locally made mugs that prompted the Swedish furniture major to recall the products worldwide, two people familiar with the development told ET.The Ikea compliance team last week visited Vadodara-based Shaily Engineering , the company that had supplied the mugs, as part of the investigation, one of the persons said.In January, the Swedish furniture and home products giant said it was recalling Troligtvis-branded mugs — priced Rs 129 apiece in India — from more than 400 Ikea outlets worldwide, barely four months after Ikea started selling the product globally.“IKEA works together with approximately 1,600 suppliers globally. Due to confidentiality and business reasons we do not share details about individual supplier relations,” an Ikea spokesperson said in an email response to a query about its probe and the Ikea team’s visit to Shaily.Sanjay Shah, chief strategy officer of Shaily, declined to comment.In an analyst call after the third quarter earnings, Amit Sanghvi, MD of Shaily, said the Vadodara-based company has not been immediately affected by the recall.“At the moment, we don’t have any liability on the product recall,” he told investors on February 4.Ikea was prompted to recall the mugs after tests found excessive level of dibutyl phthalate (DBP), a substance that is used as plasticisers to enhance durability and flexibility of plastic products.Sanghvi told analysts that Shaily was ‘not at fault’ for the global recall of the travel mugs. “Is there a problem, yes there is a problem for which the product recall was initiated. Is the problem related (or) to because of Shaily’s manufacturing. No,” he said in the conference call.