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Ottawa’s Kathryn Kalinger and her husband, Peter, spent a glum Friday taking down Christmas decorations because of a massive recall of indoor and outdoor lights triggered by a Health Canada investigation.
“When my husband was on the ladder outside, my neighbours came over and said, ‘What are you doing up there taking down your lights?’ ” Kalinger said. “He had to explain to them about the recall: that the lights were unsafe. But he definitely felt like the Grinch taking every last bulb.”
“It really takes the fun out of Christmas, having to dismantle the house,” she said.
Health Canada’s recall of Christmas lights expanded even further on Friday: Now more than 1.5 million strings of lights sold by some of the country’s most popular retailers are subject to warnings posted on the agency’s website.
The federal agency launched a national sampling program to test Christmas lights after receiving a number of reports about electric shocks and minor burns. Those Health Canada tests found that some popular brands of indoor and outdoor lights sold in Canada can overheat, and lead to potential safety risks.
Kalinger discovered that her lights were on the recall list. She returned them to a retailer on Friday and received a full refund, but she noticed the same brand of lights still on the shelf.
“It’s important for people to know this information,” said Kalinger. “And I’m worried that a lot of families don’t know, and that some stores might be confused.”
Products from two Chinese manufacturers are subject to the largest recall. About 1.3 million boxes of Christmas lights manufactured by Taizhou Hongpeng Colour Lanterns Company and Ningbo EGO International Company have been recalled after Health Canada received 19 incident reports, including four accounts of electric shock.
The affected lights have been sold under brand names such as In Style, Holiday Collection, and Holiday Time at stores that include Home Hardware, Canadian Tire and Wal-Mart.
Consumers can identify the products by examining the tag affixed to the wire of the light string. Those with CSA file numbers 241989 and 263917 are covered by the recall.
Wal-Mart Canada has issued its own recall notice for more than 487,000 boxes of the affected lights sold between August and November. The company’s own testing has determined that the lights pose a fire hazard because of overheating.
More information about the product recalls can be found on Health Canada’s website.
All of the affected products display CSA Group certification marks. The CSA Group is an independent, non-profit association that tests and certifies products so that they can be sold in Canada and around the world.
Allison Hawkins, manager of corporate affairs for the CSA Group, said the association is now collecting samples of CSA certified Christmas lights to ensure they meet the applicable standards.
“We test a sample of the product before they go onto the shelf,” she explained, “and if the sample passes, they get authorization to use the mark. But sometimes, there could be a quality control issue or materials change. They could change a supplier, for example.”
CSA Group, she noted, recently cancelled the certification for Zhejiang Kaifu Lamp Company Ltd., a manufacturer of Christmas lights, based on an investigation that showed the company misused the CSA certification mark.
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“When my husband was on the ladder outside, my neighbours came over and said, ‘What are you doing up there taking down your lights?’ ” Kalinger said. “He had to explain to them about the recall: that the lights were unsafe. But he definitely felt like the Grinch taking every last bulb.”
“It really takes the fun out of Christmas, having to dismantle the house,” she said.
Health Canada’s recall of Christmas lights expanded even further on Friday: Now more than 1.5 million strings of lights sold by some of the country’s most popular retailers are subject to warnings posted on the agency’s website.
The federal agency launched a national sampling program to test Christmas lights after receiving a number of reports about electric shocks and minor burns. Those Health Canada tests found that some popular brands of indoor and outdoor lights sold in Canada can overheat, and lead to potential safety risks.
Kalinger discovered that her lights were on the recall list. She returned them to a retailer on Friday and received a full refund, but she noticed the same brand of lights still on the shelf.
“It’s important for people to know this information,” said Kalinger. “And I’m worried that a lot of families don’t know, and that some stores might be confused.”
Products from two Chinese manufacturers are subject to the largest recall. About 1.3 million boxes of Christmas lights manufactured by Taizhou Hongpeng Colour Lanterns Company and Ningbo EGO International Company have been recalled after Health Canada received 19 incident reports, including four accounts of electric shock.
The affected lights have been sold under brand names such as In Style, Holiday Collection, and Holiday Time at stores that include Home Hardware, Canadian Tire and Wal-Mart.
Consumers can identify the products by examining the tag affixed to the wire of the light string. Those with CSA file numbers 241989 and 263917 are covered by the recall.
Wal-Mart Canada has issued its own recall notice for more than 487,000 boxes of the affected lights sold between August and November. The company’s own testing has determined that the lights pose a fire hazard because of overheating.
More information about the product recalls can be found on Health Canada’s website.
All of the affected products display CSA Group certification marks. The CSA Group is an independent, non-profit association that tests and certifies products so that they can be sold in Canada and around the world.
Allison Hawkins, manager of corporate affairs for the CSA Group, said the association is now collecting samples of CSA certified Christmas lights to ensure they meet the applicable standards.
“We test a sample of the product before they go onto the shelf,” she explained, “and if the sample passes, they get authorization to use the mark. But sometimes, there could be a quality control issue or materials change. They could change a supplier, for example.”
CSA Group, she noted, recently cancelled the certification for Zhejiang Kaifu Lamp Company Ltd., a manufacturer of Christmas lights, based on an investigation that showed the company misused the CSA certification mark.
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