EU alert · Safety Gate Serious risk Communication and media equipment
Personal music player COWON “PLENUE” — risk: damage to hearing
Published in the Safety Gate weekly report: · Ref. A12/1686/16
Summary
null The continuous sound pressure level is too high, which may cause permanent hearing damage to the user of the personal music player. The product does not comply with the relevant European standard EN 62368.
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Product
Personal music player — COWON
- Brand
- COWON
- Name / model
- PLENUE · D; 32 GB
- Batch number(s)
- P016018001487 (series No) / EAN 880929018951 (gold colour), 880929018968 (silver colour) Products sold before November 2016
- Category
- Communication and media equipment
- Personal music player (MP3 player) in rectangular block form, mostly black with a gold or silver border. Sold in an up-market cardboard box with foam padding. To note: the company has since performed a software update of the product and all new products sold after November 2016 are compliant.
What is the risk?
- null The continuous sound pressure level is too high, which may cause permanent hearing damage to the user of the personal music player. The product does not comply with the relevant European standard EN 62368.
Measures taken
- Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): DistributorCategory of measure(s): Withdrawal of the product from the market
- Date of entry into force: 13/10/2016
- Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): DistributorCategory of measure(s): Recall of the product from end users
- Date of entry into force: 13/10/2016
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