{"id":9887,"date":"2025-04-11T04:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T04:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/9887\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T04:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T04:42:14","slug":"urgent-product-recall-for-popular-air-fryers-sold-in-tesco-argos-and-bm-over-fire-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/9887\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent product recall for popular air fryers sold in Tesco, Argos and B&#038;M over fire risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-1941\/lettice-bromovsky.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LETTICE BROMOVSKY<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  07:53 EDT, 10 April 2025   |  Updated:  10:30 EDT, 10 April 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">An urgent product <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/yourmoney\/product-recalls\/index.html\" id=\"mol-8f001870-15fe-11f0-9307-27589a31f275\" rel=\"noopener\">recall<\/a> has been issued over air fryers sold in <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/tesco\/index.html\" id=\"mol-8f019f10-15fe-11f0-9307-27589a31f275\" rel=\"noopener\">Tesco<\/a>, <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/argos\/index.html\" id=\"mol-8efb0f60-15fe-11f0-9307-27589a31f275\" rel=\"noopener\">Argos<\/a> and B&amp;M which &#8216;could catch fire&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) has issued the warning for Tower Air Fryers over concerns that the product will overheat and ignite during use.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The website claimed that the affected products were manufactured between January 2022 and April 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It advised those who have purchased the air fryers to &#8216;stop using them immediately&#8217; and unplug them from power supplies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">They have been sold by retailers including Argos, B&amp;M Bargains, DID,\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/poundland\/index.html\" id=\"mol-77044e20-15ff-11f0-9307-27589a31f275\" rel=\"noopener\">Poundland<\/a>, Robert Dyas, Tesco, and the Tower Housewares website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Owners can check if they have an affected model by checking the model on the appliance rating label.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;The product presents a risk of fire as it can overheat and ignite during use,&#8217; officials warned.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-9900e618e42215f4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97125579-14592335-The_Office_for_Product_Safety_and_Standards_OPSS_has_issued_the_-a-86_174429504626.jpeg\" height=\"634\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) has issued the warning for Tower Air Fryers over concerns that the product will overheat and ignite during use\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) has issued the warning for Tower Air Fryers over concerns that the product will overheat and ignite during use<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d02761e644e130e8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97125573-14592335-The_website_claimed_that_the_affected_products_were_manufactured-a-87_174429504626.jpeg\" height=\"634\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The website claimed that the affected products were manufactured between January 2022 and April 2023\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The website claimed that the affected products were manufactured between January 2022 and April 2023<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-8ecc68e968f0fbb1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97123829-14592335-image-m-88_1744285595629.jpg\" height=\"382\" width=\"634\" alt=\"They have been sold by retailers including Argos, B&amp;M Bargains, DID, Poundland , Robert Dyas, Tesco, and the Tower Housewares website\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">They have been sold by retailers including Argos, B&amp;M Bargains, DID, Poundland , Robert Dyas, Tesco, and the Tower Housewares website<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">For refund or replacement information, customers can visit the Tower Housewares webpage, where an official recall notice is displayed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Tower Housewares&#8217; website says: &#8216;The fault has been deemed low risk by Trading Standards, however the safety and well-being of our customers is our top priority, and we have made the decision to voluntarily recall these models as a precautionary measure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;The issue has been identified within specific batches of the affected products manufactured between January 2022 \u2013 April 2023.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Air Fryer models affected by the recall are &#8216;T17023 Tower 2.2Ltr Manual Air Fryer, T17061BLK Tower 4Ltr Manual Air Fryer, T17067 Tower 4Ltr Digital Air Fryer and T17087 Tower 2Ltr Compact Manual Air Fryer&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">These models sell for between \u00a329.99-\u00a389.99.<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Urgent product recall for popular air fryers sold in Tesco, Argos and B&amp;M over fire risk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By LETTICE BROMOVSKY Published: 07:53 EDT, 10 April 2025 | Updated: 10:30 EDT, 10 April 2025 An urgent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3191,51,92,12,6704,1735,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-9887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-argos","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-poundland","13":"tag-tesco","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114317501630781023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}