Serious riskSerious risk
EU Safety Gate · Report-2008-42
PROF · Lighters
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.
- Published
- 24 October 2008
- Notifying authority
- Spain
- Catalog checked
- 30 July 2026
Check the authority measure and original alert.
Type of economic operator to whom the measure(s) were ordered: Other. Category of measure(s): Withdrawal from the market ordered by the authorities.. Date of entry into force: Unknown
Official source alertProduct identification
- Safety Gate reference
- 1226/08
- Model
- MOD. 801702
Classification
- Category
- Lighters
- Risk type
- Burns, Fire
- Country of origin
- Not published
Product description
Lighters with no child safety mechanism, presented in 50-unit display boxes, without instructions for correct, safe use of the product.