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Product safety

Lighters

The EU has addressed the risk to children posed by cigarette lighters by banning all novelty lighters (ie, any lighter that does not look like one). In addition, all nonrefillable lighters must be fitted with a child-resistant mechanism. The European Commission Decision 2010/157/EU amended the original 2006 decision for the fourth time making the legislation that bans the sale of non child resistant and novelty cigarette lighters valid until May 11th 2011. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ...

What is the recent news about lighters ?

EU Decision on lighters The European Commission Decision 2010/157/EU amended the original 2006 decision for the fourth time making the legislation that bans the sale of non child resistant and novelty cigarette lighters valid until May 11th 2011. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ... cigarette lighters are child-resistant when placed on the EU market (A child-resistant lighter is a lighter that at least 85% of children under 51 months of age cannot operate) definition of Novelty (...) Read more

Accidents with lighters

Common accidents with lighters, especially involving children at an early age. Read more

 
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