CPSC, Southern Living At Home Announce Recall of Votive CandleHolders Included with Old Taylor Estate Candeliers

Recall Insight

This CPSC action (record #06510) was formally reported on November 17, 2005. It is classified under Moderate severity, with a current status of Active. Southern Living At Home, of Birmingham, Alabama is listed as the recalling firm. Federal records indicate About 345,900 votive candle holders units are affected, a scale large enough to require multi-state distribution tracking.

The documented reason for this recall is: These votive glass candle holders can break unexpectedly during use. Distribution information was not included in the agency filing, so consumers should assume broad potential exposure until the firm publishes point-of-sale details. The remedy documented by the agency is: Southern Living At Home will notify consumers who purchased the recalled glass votive candle holders directly and will ship free replacement glass votive candle holders. — consumers holding this product should act on that instruction rather than relying on general guidance.

To put this record in context, PlainRecalls indexes 83,949 recalls across the FDA, CPSC, NHTSA and USDA FSIS going back to 1995. Within the same product category, the database holds 6 closely related recalls, of which 6 were also issued by CPSC. That clustering is a signal — repeated actions in a narrow category often indicate a systemic quality-control issue, a supplier-wide contamination, or a design defect that has propagated across product lines. This recall is roughly 21 years old; older recalls can remain relevant because many units enter resale, rental, and secondary-market channels where the original warning never reaches the end user. Always cross-check the recall number against the official agency page before relying on any summary.