The reports that the ionic smartwatch of fittest was heated to overheat began in 2018 and continued in 2020. However, according to US officials, the company did not report fast, as the law requires that customers are creating a serious injury or irrational risk of death.
On Thursday, the US Customer Product Protection Commission has announced that the lithium-ion battery of the fitted watch may be overly heated, with a delay in reporting that it can create a burnt hazard.
The Commission noted that in early 2021, the firmware update was issued to reduce the potential for fitted battery overheating, as customers continued to report burning due to clocks. However the fitted voluntary ionic smart watch could not remember March 2, 2022The
At that time, the Commission said that at least 5 reports were received worldwide in the fitted lithium-ion batteries, resulting in injuring 5, two third-degree burnt cases and four including the second-degree burns.
“Commissioner Rich Tramka Jr. said in a statement on Thursday that numerous overheating cases should have been reported along with numerous overheating incidents including Fitat II and Third-Degree Burns. “Instead, fitting his report delayed the law, breaking the law, confronting customers’ burn Hazard. Many of these injuries could have been prevented. “
In a statement on Friday, a spokesman for Fitbit said, “Customer protection continues as our top priority, and we are pleased to resolve the issue from the Volunteer Recovery of the fitted ionic in 2022 with CPSC.”
About a million devices, which track the activity, heart rate and sleep, were sold in the US from September 2017 to December 2021, the worldwide extra 693,000 was sold worldwide. Fitbit said that reports of injuries represent less than 0.01 percent of all ionic clocks sold. According to the Customer Commission, the company has stopped production of ionic in 2021.
During the restoration of 2022, the owners were given $ 299 after the ionic watches were returned and received a discount code for the selected fitted device according to the Customer Commission.
As part of the settlement agreement, fitted was agreed to submit an annual report with updates about the effectiveness of its rebuild consent policy.
Google Bought The health and well -being of the health and wellness that created the advertisement of fitted Internet users in early 2021 was fitted in early 2021 after agreeing to not use.
In 2014, fitted Has been recalled Customers complain about intense skin irritation after more than a million of its force wrists.
However Avoid Similarly, after the allegations, at the end of that year, a recovery of its flex wrists, a warning about nickel allergies, and a warning about users’ wrist bands very tightly added to a sized guideline.
