Sky lantern - Normal Paper Fly Lantern
Unknown
- Country of origin
- People's Republic of China
- Notifying country
- Lithuania
- Counterfeit
- No
- Sold online
- No
What is the danger
The product poses a risk of fire because users do not have any flight direction and speed control and can not influence the point where the lantern will go down/fall. It is therefore very difficult or impossible to avoid the lantern coming into contact with flammable material, e.g. dry vegetation or buildings. Incident reported
Measures taken
- Sales ban, withdrawal from the market and recall from consumers ordered by the authorities. Compulsory measuresTaken by: Other
Product
- Description
- Flying paper lantern (available in three colours: yellow, pink, blue) are packed in plastic packaging. On the packaging is written: material from cotton-fibre paper. Inside the product on a metal frame is placed the candle. Inside the packaging sky lantern added a short instruction in the state language. Product size: 1. D 40 x 100 cm; 2. D 30 x 75 cm.
- Brand
- Model / type
Original source
Data comes from the official Safety Gate system of the European Commission.
- Alert number
- 1267/10 ↗
- Weekly report
- Report-2010-33
- Published
- 19 August 2010
- Corrigendum
- Corrigenda Notification 0803/10 of report 20 of 2010 has been permanently withdrawn due to additional information on the risk assessment. Notification 1202/10 of report 32 of 2010 has been temporarily withdrawn pending further information on the risk assessment.
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