Periodical reminder the European Commission runs something called Safety Gate.
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Periodical reminder the European Commission runs something called Safety Gate.
It's an easy way to find out whether that niche and/or dodgy thing you bought has been part of an official recall anywhere in the single market.
Apart of branded stuff where the manufacturer made a genuine error there's also the utter crap (often sold by Amazon, don't buy there) like the murderous brush cutter chainsaw attachments that keep popping up.
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Periodical reminder the European Commission runs something called Safety Gate.
It's an easy way to find out whether that niche and/or dodgy thing you bought has been part of an official recall anywhere in the single market.
Apart of branded stuff where the manufacturer made a genuine error there's also the utter crap (often sold by Amazon, don't buy there) like the murderous brush cutter chainsaw attachments that keep popping up.
Smoke and carbon monoxide detectors pop up rather frequently btw. And even so most of the shitty ones probably fall through the cracks.
As usual the very large online retailers (Amazon, and the ones like Alibaba even more blatantly shitting on EU consumer rights and small companies) are a large vector for this.
When you go through the effort of installing these, just try to buy something from a reputable large brand that is somewhat widespread in your country.
Example: https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/alertDetail/10098636?lang=en
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Smoke and carbon monoxide detectors pop up rather frequently btw. And even so most of the shitty ones probably fall through the cracks.
As usual the very large online retailers (Amazon, and the ones like Alibaba even more blatantly shitting on EU consumer rights and small companies) are a large vector for this.
When you go through the effort of installing these, just try to buy something from a reputable large brand that is somewhat widespread in your country.
Example: https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/alertDetail/10098636?lang=en
Smoke-detector.
"The product is not sensitive enough to detect smoke."
Sold via Amazon, Wish, Shein, Alibaba, Aliexpress
Might be laughable but also there's a lot of people who now have these in their house. It kills people.
It's difficult to enforce stuff on Wish, Shein, Alibaba and Aliexpress (although the EU could / should make advertising these sites illegal) but fricking Amazon ships this shit from EU warehouses. It's infuriating they're never fined for this.
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Smoke-detector.
"The product is not sensitive enough to detect smoke."
Sold via Amazon, Wish, Shein, Alibaba, Aliexpress
Might be laughable but also there's a lot of people who now have these in their house. It kills people.
It's difficult to enforce stuff on Wish, Shein, Alibaba and Aliexpress (although the EU could / should make advertising these sites illegal) but fricking Amazon ships this shit from EU warehouses. It's infuriating they're never fined for this.
I work for a company fixing stuff after calamities, often fires. The past years we've been to multiple sites where the smoke detectors did not trigger despite massive amounts of smoke.
This is not a thing that happened a decade ago.
Do me a favour and check the smoke and carbon monoxide detectors you have at home. When in doubt: replace them.
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I work for a company fixing stuff after calamities, often fires. The past years we've been to multiple sites where the smoke detectors did not trigger despite massive amounts of smoke.
This is not a thing that happened a decade ago.
Do me a favour and check the smoke and carbon monoxide detectors you have at home. When in doubt: replace them.
@Pepijn Hoe check je die zonder de boel in de fik te steken?
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@Pepijn Hoe check je die zonder de boel in de fik te steken?
@EllenB Best moeilijk. Paar basis dingen:
- Bak een stapel pannenkoeken met lekker veel boter en de afzuiging uit.
- Druk het testknopje in. Kijk op het datum stickertje of de levensduur is overschreden.
- Maar controleren of het product zelf "goed" is... is best moeilijk. Je zou minimaal deze lijst eens door kunnen kijken en plaatjes kunnen vergelijken. Als het een melder van een bekend merk is dat in vele echte winkels wordt verkocht zit je waarschijnlijk goed.
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@Pepijn Hoe check je die zonder de boel in de fik te steken?
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Periodical reminder the European Commission runs something called Safety Gate.
It's an easy way to find out whether that niche and/or dodgy thing you bought has been part of an official recall anywhere in the single market.
Apart of branded stuff where the manufacturer made a genuine error there's also the utter crap (often sold by Amazon, don't buy there) like the murderous brush cutter chainsaw attachments that keep popping up.
@Pepijn ooo this is good to know about, thank you!
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Periodical reminder the European Commission runs something called Safety Gate.
It's an easy way to find out whether that niche and/or dodgy thing you bought has been part of an official recall anywhere in the single market.
Apart of branded stuff where the manufacturer made a genuine error there's also the utter crap (often sold by Amazon, don't buy there) like the murderous brush cutter chainsaw attachments that keep popping up.
@Pepijn the US equivalent is the CPSC, their site is not as comprehensive and their API downright sucks, but they have information on some big brand recalls.
The OECD also has a global federated system, but that one is barely usable.
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