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.

https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/search

#EU #europe #tech #safetyish

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.

https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/alertDetail/10093833?lang=en

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?
@EllenB een keertje je eten laten aanbranden werkt uitstekend, leert de ervaring. :โ€™)
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@ReneDamkot Oh? Vertel. ๐Ÿ˜ @Pepijn

@EllenB Net drie nieuwe rookmelders (verplicht, door de woningbouw opgehangen, draadloos gekoppeld, รฉรฉntje op rand woonkamer/ keuken ๐Ÿ™„ ).
Eerste keer iets bakken: tikkie te hoog vuur onder nog lege pan met olie -> walm -> drie jengelende rookalarmen.

En dan mag je op zoek naar iets om op te staan zodat je bij die 'uit' knop van die vervloekte krengen kan.

:')

@Pepijn