Urgent safety alert for travel electronic over fire risk

The UK Government has issued an urgent safety alert for households who’ve recently purchased a specific travel item or plan on going on holiday soon. In a new product safety report released on Wednesday, February 18, the government announced that a travel adapter shouldn’t be used. 

This safety alert comes after the product has been identified as posing a “serious risk” of fire when using. According to the government’s official website, the travel adapter does not “conform to the dimensional requirements” of BS 1363 (the British Standard for 13-amp plugs, socket-outlets, and adapters), as well as containing a fuse that is too small. The product in question is a black plug by the brand Decqle.

The product affected by the safety alert includes:

• Decqle Universal Travel Adapter – model number DQZ9.

They also can be identified by the numbers: B0D95K3NV3, 1031-YSR3013, and 10433514U000010.

It also has the PSD notification number: 2602-0096. A Product Safety Database (PSD) notification number is a unique identifier assigned to reports of unsafe or non-compliant products submitted to the UK’s Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS).

The risk description read: “The product presents a serious risk of fire because the plug does not meet the dimensional requirements of BS 1363 and the fuse is too small. The fuse is required to ensure the safe operation of the product under fault conditions, and its absence could lead to the plug overheating and/or exploding. Improvements are also required to the product labelling and marking.

“The product does not meet the requirements of the Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 2016 or the Plugs & Sockets etc. (Safety) Regulations 1994.”

As the travel adapter is in import into the UK, it has since been rejected at the border as a corrective measure.