The senior German electrical Testing and Certification Institute has withdrawn the IEC/EN60730 Safety Certificate and Marks License from a major Chinese copyist manufacturer.

The manufacturer YONG HENG Thermostat Factory, Shunde is the largest supplier of copy controls for electric kettles. This case specifically concerns YONG HENG's copies of the STRIX R7 and STRIX P69 controls. He is the major supplier to certain PRC kettle manufacturers who have been responsible for the influx of offending kettles into Europe and other parts of the world. These kettles, due to their fitment with the YONG HENG controls and connectors, have been classified as "dangerously unsafe", and non-complying with safety standards and the E.U. Low Voltage Directive, by the same German Testing and Certification Institute and others.

The European Approval marks on these controls are therefore completely invalid, and the use of them is illegal.

The certification was only recently given, prior to certain facts coming to the institute's notice.

Thanks are owed to this approval institute for their vigilance and prompt action by Consumers all over Europe, and by all manufacturers of safe and legitimate product. We are all being well served by them.