As early as 4 years ago, the UK officially charged the Whirlpool company with the production of low-quality dryers, which provoked numerous fires in British homes. And only in June of this year, the American brand took responsibility and fully admitted its guilt. The company is now recalling half a million tumble dryers sold to people in the UK for fire hazards.
In the United Kingdom, they first started talking about this in 2015 and immediately turned to the Americans with a demand to conduct a thorough check of Whirlpool products for defects. Then the manufacturer partially admitted his fault, but did not recall the dryers, since the costs of such measures would be huge. The Americans limited themselves to calling on the British to order an inspection of their equipment for breakdowns and other malfunctions in their work.
But 4 years later, after a lengthy squabble with the British bureau responsible for the safety of consumer goods, the company still decided to inspect its equipment for improper operation. But there was a problem with the recall of equipment, because there is no information on how many specifically possibly faulty dryers are operated by the British. Their number can vary from 250 to 000 units.
British experts immediately started talking about the fact that such an incident was a clear demonstration of the need to introduce registration of every copy of large equipment sold in the UK. Such a registry will quickly and accurately inform the government about problems with the equipment of those owners in whose homes it was the faulty copies.