Issued By
West Yorkshire Trading
Standards Service
Kingston
Upon Hull and West Yorkshire Trading Standards Service are warning the public
not to buy upholstered furniture door-to-door or from unusual outlets such as
roadside pitches.
The
furniture was manufactured in Holland and does not meet UK furniture safety
requirements. Two container loads
entered the country at Hull last week. Its
documentation indicated the furniture was intended for the Republic of Ireland
and the Dutch haulier was supposed to take it from the docks to a firm of
international hauliers in Bradford for forwarding to Ireland.
The furniture disappeared somewhere on route between Hull and Bradford.
Martin
Wood, West Yorkshire Chief Trading Standards Officer said, “The three piece
suites are manufactured to Dutch standards and do not meet our flammability
performance and labelling requirements. We
suspect them to be somewhere in the Yorkshire and Humberside region and may very
well be in West Yorkshire”.
Councillor Graham Clarke, Chairman of the West Yorkshire Trading Standards Committee said, “We believe this furniture will be offered door-to-door or from unusual locations. My advice would be do not buy it. Anyone wishing to purchase upholstered furniture should visit a reputable high street retailer”
For further information contact
Tony
Downham, Principal Officer 0113 289
8247
Paul
Cooper Divisional Manager 0113 289
8240