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oneeyedvic:
I have one of these and they are great. A couple of weeks ago, my one went wrong and emittted black smoke. Tefal have picked it up and sent another one. We have no issue with it:

http://www.tefal.co.uk/actifry/default.htm
The Tefal Actifry is a very safe product that has undergone over 500 hours of safety tests and had to pass an independent laboratory test to gain the European Safety Standards certification.

Watchdog reported a few cases where customers saw smoke emit from their Actifry. In the rare occasion of a product failure this is perfectly normal and safe. Any appliance with a hot air heating system (i.e. convection oven, hairdryer) will produce smoke should the fan fail. This is because it causes the element to overheat and melt a small amount of surrounding plastics. However, The Actifry has been designed to "fail safe" as it will automatically shut power off immediately and is made from flame retardant plastics to ensure absolute fire safety.

Over 500,000 Actifry’s have been sold worldwide without a single report of personal injury and 99.6% of UK customers who have brought an Actifry have not reported any problems at all and continue to enjoy this revolutionary innovation. Tefal have also been in consultation with Trading Standards that looks after the interests of consumer safety.

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Product safety testing
Watchdog took a brand new Actifry to a product safety testing laboratory to find out what went wrong. With our new Actifry, the lab replicated six month's use, in just three days and everything seemed to work fine. However, when the scientists simulated a fan failure - which they say is one of the most common faults in products like this - the Actifry should have been able to cope just fine, but within seconds it was on fire.
TÜV Product Service compliance services manager Richard Poate, who tested the Actifry for Watchdog, said: "Anything that emits that degree of smoke and fire could have potential catastrophic effects. This is a fundamental design issue that should have been detected very, very easily. All the safety standards require you to simulate failures like motor failure, fan failure, and how this got past the safety testing is really quite beyond me. In my opinion, there should be a recall."