The Shopper Product Security Fee is telling customers to right away cease utilizing Elide Fireplace Extinguishing Balls, a product that claims to activate mechanically in case of a fireplace and launch fireplace retardant chemical substances to place it out.
In a news release on Thursday, the CPSC stated using the Elide Fireplace Extinguishing Balls can result in burns, smoke inhalation, critical harm, and demise as a result of the merchandise can fail to place out fires. As defined by the CPSC, the issue with the product is that the balls can fail within the occasion of a fireplace. As well as, the company factors out that the product lacks different helpful options, akin to a strain gauge and a locking machine to cut back the chance of unintended discharge.
“CPSC urges customers to not buy or promote these fireplace extinguishing balls,” the company said. “Customers ought to cease utilizing and dispose of those merchandise at both a neighborhood fireplace division or a hazardous waste disposal facility.”
The company’s warning applies to all three of the Elide Fireplace’s fashions of fireplace extinguishing balls, which differ in shade (pink or blue), weight, and dimension and sometimes promote for between $95 and $120. Whereas Elide Fireplace states that its merchandise meet European certification requirements, the CPSC said that it didn’t meet the UL 299 Dry Chemical Fireplace Extinguishers customary and the UL 711 Ranking and Fireplace Testing of Fireplace Extinguishers, that are each voluntary security requirements.
The company beneficial that customers solely buy fireplace extinguishers that meet UL 299 and UL711 requirements.
On its website, Elide Fireplace, a Thailand-based firm, does at occasions suggest that its fireplace extinguishing balls are superior to extinguisher tanks and fireplace sprinkler programs, although the corporate additionally factors out that its fireplace extinguishing balls must be used together with conventional firefighting tools.
Elide Fireplace has denied the CPSC’s request to recall the fireplace extinguishing balls or provide a treatment to customers, the company stated. Elide Fireplace didn’t instantly reply to Gizmodo’s request for touch upon Thursday.
Chuck Thompson, a spokesperson for E Fire USA, a U.S. firm that sells the identical patented ball because the Elide Fireplace product, advised Gizmodo in an e mail that the corporate “strongly disagree[d] with the CPSC launch.” E Fireplace USA’s product known as the “E-Fireplace Ball.” And whereas the corporate initially labored with Elide Fireplace when it introduced the product into the U.S., it ended its skilled relationship with the Thai firm over a 12 months in the past.
Though E Fireplace USA’s merchandise will not be named within the CPSC’s launch, Thompson stated the corporate is frightened about “the misinformation [about] an progressive product just like the Fireplace Ball.” Thompson stated the CPSC’s warning was unfair as a result of merchandise just like the Fireplace Ball weren’t fireplace extinguishers and thus shouldn’t be examined towards requirements created for them.
“We are attempting to deliver extra instruments to assist combat fireplace so anytime one thing like this occurs it slows the business in shifting ahead with new and progressive options,” Thompson stated. “We’d by no means inform anybody to switch their fireplace extinguishers or eliminate programs, extra is required. There’s by no means sufficient fireplace safety.”
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