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CPSC, Southern Living At HOME Announce Recall of Tea Light Candles

Home product recall 05-560. Announced by CPSC on Apr 5, 2005.

CPSC’s own notice, on cpsc.gov

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Announced by CPSC on Apr 5, 2005. Copied from CPSC on Oct 19, 2026.

Every line below is in CPSC’s own words, with its source beside it.

What’s wrong with it?

Some of these tea light candles from one production run can burn with a high flame, due to contamination.

Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

What should you do?

Southern Living At HOME will notify consumers who purchased the recalled candles directly and will receive a free replacement candle set.

Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

  • How to reach the firm: For more information, contact Southern Living At HOME at (800) 898-0128 between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. CT Monday through Friday.

Which ones are recalled?

This alert is only for consumers who purchased Item Number 40491 (the item number is located on the side of the packaging below the logo), an eight pack of Fern Warm Comforts tea light candles, after October 26, 2004. The tea light candles are green and come in a plastic holder. Candles purchased prior to October 26, 2004 are not affected by this alert.

3,480 units, as CPSC gives them.

Fern Warm Comforts Tea Light Candles.

Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

CPSC’s photos

CPSC shows 1 photo on its notice. Hearth Record doesn’t copy them; each opens on cpsc.gov.

Who made and sold it?

  • Made by Candle-lite, Cincinnati, Ohio for Southern Living At HOME, a direct selling company.
  • Southern Living At HOME consultants sold these candles at home parties nationwide, from October 26, 2004 through March 1, 2005, for about $7.
  • Made in Macau, as the notice gives it.
Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

Was anyone hurt?

Southern Living At HOME has received one report of high flame. There are no reported injuries.

Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

What the record doesn’t say

  • The notice lists no UPCs, so check the model, the description and the photos.
  • The notice lists no model numbers in a field of their own; its description may give them.
  • How many have been returned or fixed isn’t in the notice.
Source:

Hearth Record wrote these lines.

Sources

  • U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Recalls API.

    Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work). CPSC asks to be credited, and that no endorsement be implied.

Source:

Recalls of kids’ and home products are from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). CPSC does not endorse Hearth Record. Copied on Oct 19, 2026.

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