Please Check Your Cooker
August 22nd, 2010News released today that the National Consumer Agency has renewed its appeal to locate some 3,000 gas cookers that could potentially cause serious carbon-monoxide poisoning.
This is in fact the third time the agency has made this appeal in connection with specified makes and models of gas cooker which in this case have a separate oven and grill.
The agency have issued a statement saying that cooking with the grill with its door shut can cause very dangerous levels of carbon-monoxide to be produced, leading to injury or death. Please do contact your manufacturer and ask about your built in Beko ovens.
“The manufacturers have made a number of attempts to date to trace these cookers. However, over 3,000 remain untraced,” said agency chief executive Ann Fitzgerald. “We are again issuing a warning to all consumers to check their cookers.”
It is believed that the affected cookers were manufactured by Beko, Flavel, Leisure and New World, although not all cookers carrying these brand names are dangerous.
Ms Fitzgerald urged people away 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 rented accommodation”.
It should be noted that there have been at least six deaths in the UK and Ireland linked to the faulty appliances.
Should you have one of the cookers is advised to immediately contact the manufacturer to arrange for a modification to be made which is gratis.