Calling it a "wake up" call, the European Commission (EC) warned that on average, just more than 30 per cent of Christmas lights sold in the European Union (EU) had increased risks of electric shock, fire hazard or both.
"If we are going to 'keep the lights on' at Christmas, consumers need to be confident that there are no compromises on safety," European Consumer Protection Commissioner Meglena Kouneva was quoted as saying in an EC media statement issued on December 2 2009 at the presentation of a report on Christmas light safety.
The report presented the conclusions of a joint market surveillance project that involved authorities from Hungary, Germany, Slovakia, Slovania and the Netherlands. Testing had been carried out between November 2007 and May 2009 on 196 random samples of Christmas light chains across the entire price range, the media statement said.
Many of the lighting chains that had been checked, had failed multiple technical or administrative tests.
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