Burns, Fire

Lighters

MUNDO BAZAR
LightersLighters
Case number
1225/08
Category
Lighters
Type / Model
REF. BBD889-2, bar code: 8482841007059 REF. BBD319, bar code: 8482841007028
Audience
Consumer
Notifying country
🇪🇸 Spain
Country of origin
Unknown
Published
2008-10-24

⚠️ Risk

The product poses a risk of burns and fire because the lighter does not include a device making it child-resistant, as required by Commission Decision 2006/502/EC ensuring that only lighters which are child-resistant are placed on the market and prohibiting the placing on the market of novelty lighters.

Measures

Type of economic operator to whom the measure(s) were ordered: OtherCategory of measure(s): Withdrawal from the market ordered by the authorities.Date of entry into force: Unknown

Two novelty lighters, which can also be used as torches, which operate irregularly and which contain no child safety mechanism. The lighters are presented in display boxes on which there are no instructions for the safe and correct use of the product.