String lights
Unknown
Lighting chainsElectric shock
- Country of origin
- Hong Kong
- Notifying country
- UK
- Counterfeit
- No
- Sold online
- Yes
Requirements breached
The live parts of the travel adaptor can be easily touched by users as there are no safety gates preventing access. A person could touch the live part of the adaptor and receive an electric shock. The product does not comply with the Low Voltage Directive, the Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 1994 or BS 1363.
Measures taken
- Withdrawal of the product from the market Voluntary measuresTaken by: Distributor
Product
- Description
- Warm white LED light string garland with UK travel adaptor. Packed in a blue box with snowy pine trees, with white stars and patterns around the edge; orange, yellow and white text written in Russian; image of Santa Claus with a circle of small yellow stars around.
- Brand
- Model / type
- Batch
Original source
Data comes from the official Safety Gate system of the European Commission.
- Alert number
- A12/0361/17 ↗
- Weekly report
- Report-2017-013
- Published
- 21 March 2017
© European Union, Safety Gate · https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/alertDetail/252329
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