{
  "alert_number": "0980/07",
  "url": "https://recallarchive.com/alert/0980-07",
  "official_notice": "https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/alertDetail/-12682",
  "safety_gate_published": "2007-10-04",
  "weekly_report": {
    "year": 2007,
    "week": 39,
    "date": "2007-10-05"
  },
  "category": "Recreational crafts",
  "product": "Self-inflating life rafts",
  "brand_as_notified": "BFA MARINE",
  "brands": [
    {
      "name": "Bfa Marine",
      "url": "https://recallarchive.com/brand/bfamarine"
    }
  ],
  "name": null,
  "model": "Models: BFA, Baltic, Atlantic, Pacific and XM/BFA OFFSHORE",
  "batch": null,
  "barcode_as_notified": null,
  "barcodes": [],
  "description": "Self-inflating life rafts manufactured between 1997 and 2002 (serial numbers 10001 – 50180) and between 2002 and April 2007 (serial numbers starting with the prefix XDC).",
  "production_dates": null,
  "risk_type": "Drowning",
  "risk": "The product poses a serious risk of drowning because the life raft may not inflate when used, owing to a fault:- in the two valves on each of the two compartments,      - on the Y-shaped plastic inflating connection. It seemed that the valve fault originated from assembly in a factory using lubricants which allowed tightening beyond the force recommended by the supplier. When over tightened, the overpressure valves can crack, or even break, after a period of time which is difficult to estimate, but which may apparently be shortened as a function of storage temperature. Concerning the Y-connection, a Y-shaped plastic inflation connection is fitted to a small number of life rafts manufactured. The presence of traces of lubricant detected by analysis suggests that the cause of the faults on the Y-connection is the same as in the case of the valves.",
  "risk_level": "Serious risk",
  "measures": [
    {
      "measure": "Voluntary corrective actions taken by the manufacturer. Press release has been issued",
      "operator": "Other",
      "ordered": false,
      "from": null
    }
  ],
  "measures_as_published": "Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): Other\nCategory of measure(s): Voluntary corrective actions taken by the manufacturer. Press release has been issued.\nDate of entry into force: Unknown",
  "company_recall_code": null,
  "recall_page": null,
  "online_marketplaces": [],
  "notifying_country": "France",
  "country_of_origin": "Hungary",
  "alert_type": "Consumer",
  "counterfeit": false,
  "official_record": {
    "barcodes": [],
    "batches": [],
    "models": [
      "Models: BFA, Baltic, Atlantic, Pacific and XM/BFA OFFSHORE"
    ]
  },
  "licence": "Weekly-report fields CC0 1.0; official_record and counterfeit: © European Union, CC BY 4.0",
  "source": "EU Safety Gate. recallarchive is independent and not affiliated with the European Commission; the official notice is authoritative."
}