National Consumer Agency Recall
We have just heard that the National Consumer Agency has renewed its appeal to try and find some 3,000 gas cookers that could potentially be responsible for carbon-monoxide poisoning.
It is the third time the agency has made this appeal in connection with specified makes and models of gas cooker which have a separate oven and grill.
It says that cooking with the grill with its door shut can cause extremely dangerous levels of carbon-monoxide to be produced, leading to injury or death. Please do contact your manufacturer and ask about your built in New World oven.
The agency have said that “The manufacturers have been busy trying to trace these cookers. However, over 3,000 remain untraced,” said agency CEO Ann Fitzgerald. “We are again reaching out to all consumers to check their cookers.”
The affected cookers were manufactured by Beko, Flavel, Leisure and New World, please note that not all cookers carrying these brand names are dangerous.
Ms Fitzgerald urged people sleeping in holiday homes to check the cookers, and called on landlords who may be renting to students to check their appliances “as many of the cookers involved were the lower entry models, and may have been purchased by landlords for rental accommodation”.
Sadly have been at least six deaths in the UK and Ireland linked to the faulty appliances.
If you have one of the cookers is advised to immediately contact the manufacturer to arrange for a modification to be made which is free.
