IKEA to pay fine for 2006 candle recall
WASHINGTON Home furnishing company IKEA agreed to pay a $500,000 fine for being slow to report defective outdoor candles, the government said Sunday.
In May 2006, IKEA recalled 133,000 packages of open-air candles in the United States. The joint concern had received at least 32 reports of problems with these candles worldwide, including 12 reports of injuries.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said IKEA did not promptly report the problems, as the law requires.
The candles were available at IKEA stores around the country between February 2001 and July 2005.
In the adjustment agreement by the management, IKEA North America Services denied that it knowingly broke the law.
This fine comes on the heels of the company’s Thursday annul of 670,000 blinds in the United States. The window dressings were recalled rear a 1-year-old girl died when she got caught in the inner cord of a set of IKEA Roman blinds from one side of to the other her playpen.
A telephone message left Sunday for speaker at IKEA USA offices in Conshohocken, Pa., was not immediately returned. E-mail requests for make comments from that spokesman and a second representative were not without any intervention answered.
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On the Net:
IKEA: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/
Consumer Product Safety Commission: http://www.cpsc.gov
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