Serious riskSerious risk
EU Safety Gate · Report-2008-42
SOWA · Lighters
These products pose a risk of fire and burns because they do not include a safety device making them child-resistant, as required by Commission Decision 2006/502/EC ensuring that only lighters which are child-resistant are placed on the market.
- 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
- 1229/08
Classification
- Category
- Lighters
- Risk type
- Burns, Fire
- Country of origin
- People's Republic of China