Watchdog’s fridges plea

A WATCHDOG has called for all plasticbacked fridges, freezers and fridge-freezers to be “urgently” removed from sale after finding they pose a fire risk and could even hasten the spread of a blaze.

Which? said that an industry-wide investigation of more than 500 of the most popular refrigeration appliances on the market revealed backing material on 45% of them was made of unsafe plastic that posed a potential fire hazard.