EU Safety Gate · Report-2009-43
Smoking Sets · Novelty lighter - High-grade Lighter
This product poses a risk of burns and fire because it is attractive to children, especially under 51 months of age. The product does not comply with the Commission Decision 2006/502/EC prohibiting the placing on the market of novelty lighters.
- Published
- 06 November 2009
- Notifying authority
- Bulgaria
- 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, recall from consumers and destruction of products ordered by the authorities.. Date of entry into force: Unknown
Official source alertProduct identification
- Safety Gate reference
- 1437/09
- Model
- Unknown
Classification
- Category
- Lighters
- Risk type
- Burns, Fire
- Country of origin
- People's Republic of China
Product description
Lighters with unusual appearance – novelty gas lighters, offered for sale without a label in Bulgarian language, in cardboard boxes, with inscriptions „Smoking sets” and „High-grade lighter”, user instructions and consumer warnings in English - refillable metal lighter, rubber encased, with a lid. When pressed it starts to emit red, blue and yellow light.