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Toshiba recalls Sony batteries again

Erica Ogg CNET News

Published: 13 Aug 2007 09:07 BST

Toshiba is recalling potentially dangerous notebook batteries for the third month in a row, due to concerns about potential overheating.

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said 1,400 of the lithium-ion batteries containing Sony-made cells sold with Toshiba laptops pose a fire hazard.

There have been three reports of models with those batteries overheating in other countries, but none of the incidents caused injury, according to the CPSC.

Models affected by the recall include Toshiba's Satellite A100, Satellite A105 and Tecra A7.

Customers whose notebook was made between January and June 2006 are eligible for a free replacement battery from the company by going to Toshiba's battery replacement website.

In the meantime, the notebooks can still be used with the power cord and no battery.

Toshiba recalled 5,100 Sony batteries in July, and in June urged customers to send in for a new battery after reports of one catching fire and burning a desk in the UK.

However, the latest number of defective batteries is short of last autumn's recall, which affected more than nine million notebooks from most major PC makers.