This comparison covers 2 official alert references, including solar tea lights, candles in the shape of a flower, published from 2008-12-26 to 2021-07-09. The recorded risks raise separate evidence questions about operating/charging heat. Compare the product features and dated findings below before scoping an investigation. These historical observations do not determine your product’s compliance or a market failure rate.
Evidence retrieved 2026-10-07. Source versions and topic-specific limits are listed below.
Dated official observations
Compare the product features and reported failure mechanism
The source wording below describes the reported case at that time. Read each complete report before using it in an investigation.
Solar tea lights · A12/00992/21
Report published 2021-07-09 · notifying country Ireland · reported origin People's Republic of China
Reported product description
Set of 6 solar tea lights (comes in White LED or Amber LED) [1]
Reported risk explanation
The battery and tea light housing are too small and the battery overheats while being charged. This can lead the battery to explode, the small particles coming out of it causing injuries to the user. The product does not comply with the requirements of the General Product Safety Directive. [1]
Reported measures, verbatim
Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): ImporterCategory of measure(s): Recall of the product from end usersDate of entry into force: 07/06/2021 [1]
Report published 2008-12-26 · notifying country Bulgaria · reported origin People's Republic of China
Reported product description
Candles in the shape of a flower - a lotus - made of thin plastic on which there are 8 small candles about 1 cm long and in the middle there is a combustible substance which can be ignited with the help of a special stick. When ignited, the tune “Happy birthday to you” plays. Packaging: a cardboard box with pictures of the candles, and the following inscriptions - “MUSIC CANDLE”, “Happy birthday to you”. [2]
Reported risk explanation
The product poses a risk of burns and fire because after lighting the candle the leaves open up and once the candle has burnt the leaves catch fire, burning intensively together with the rest of the flower. The battery then explodes and can be unexpectedly “thrown out” in any direction. [2]
Reported measures, verbatim
Type of economic operator to whom the measure(s) were ordered: OtherCategory of measure(s): Recall from consumers by the distributor ordered by the authorities.Date of entry into force: Unknown [2]
2 distinct official alert references, published between 2008-12-26 and 2021-07-09. Counts describe the acquired reports, with no market denominator.
Report year
Recorded alerts
2008
1
2021
1
Recorded risk labels within this evidence task
Label combinations are source facts within one comparison; they do not create separate guides with identical preparation tasks.
Burns, Fire: 1 recorded references
Injuries: 1 recorded references
Source selection, exclusions and calculation method
Filter the acquired, completely parsed English weekly XML releases. Deduplicate official alert references. Group by product category and the complete set of conditional evidence-question topics supported by actual risk text. Risk-label combinations remain recorded cohort facets and do not create buyer intents. Brand, product name, model, origin, notifying country, measurement-only changes and different wording of the same questions do not create intents. Unrecognized mechanisms stay internal for enrichment. Count report years and notifying countries deterministically. Display at most eight newest descriptions with at least 40 characters after whitespace normalization, nonempty reported measures and distinct casefolded descriptions; break date ties by official identifier. All cohort records count even if their description is shorter or not displayed. This is not a representative sample. Counts concern this acquired corpus only.
One acquired version per official public alert reference. Display at most eight newest distinct product descriptions whose normalized whitespace-collapsed text contains at least 40 characters and has nonempty reported measures; ties sort by official identifier. The complete cohort includes shorter descriptions. This is an explicit display selection, not a representative sample.
2 distinct descriptions displayed; 0 cohort records not displayed. Missing fields: {}.
These are selected, dated enforcement observations in the acquired weekly reports, not a random market sample, market-wide failure rate, proof of current product status, or a determination about your product. Notification country is not a complete sales-market or jurisdiction-coverage field. A quoted legal/standard reference is the report’s statement, not independently verified current law or a mandatory test panel.
Calculation safety-gate-evidence-comparison-10; units recorded alerts; no incidence denominator.
Turn the reported failure mechanism into a scoped investigation
Use this checklist to gather your business or product details before speaking with a specialist. The items below explain what to record and suggest useful supporting documents. You can add your own answers in the editable project brief.
Operating heat and battery/charging configuration — what evidence do we have?
If the product includes the reported battery configuration, compare the actual operating or charging heat mechanism with cell/charger specifications, protection circuitry and foreseeable use. Keep heat or electrochemical injury following mouthing or swallowing separate; it does not establish a charging fault.
Useful evidence: Cell/charger specifications, protection design, operating limits, assembly/revision history and existing thermal/electrical evidence.
Can we trace the affected component, formula or design revision across our supplied products?
Compare the reported descriptions with your own identifiers and change records. Treat missing or “Unknown” source fields as unresolved; they do not establish that no action was needed.
Useful evidence: Product identifiers, revision history, supplier/batch traceability and market/operator records.
Who would own an evidence review and any resulting corrective-action decision?
Read the reported measures as historical observations. Establish your own operator roles, sector-specific rules, decision owner and communication responsibilities before adopting another case’s response.
Conditional: Product-risk evidence and operator-role review — Compare the recorded product features and failure mechanism with your product. Confirm the applicable product regime, deciding evidence, operator responsibilities and justified next steps. This does not assume that GPSR or a representative appointment applies to every alert category.
Questions for providers
Which specific product features and reported risk mechanism make these cases relevant or irrelevant to our product?
What current legal, standards or scientific sources support your proposed investigation criteria, and what cannot be concluded from these dated alerts?
Which existing evidence can answer the risk question, what additional work is justified, and who owns any resulting corrective-action decision?
Sources and data dates
Read the official document in context. The audit details identify the precise locators and preserved versions used for this page.
