Aldi lures, starting on Monday with a supposed summer bargain. However, in the case of the use of the device, a display and a fine, to threaten customers.
food - Suitable for the annual summer mosquito plague Aldi offers a supposed bargain. However, not only for the insects, the light could keep the case in for a nasty Surprise ready. Because users are risking Trouble with the law.
Aldi Nord offers from Monday (29. July) favorable insects to traps. More specifically, UV-lamps, which attract with their light mosquitoes and the plague of ghosts and then at 20,000 volts succumbed. These light are about to fall, the majority of customers, but more precisely, only the fewest know. The Killer-lamps have two huge hooks.
Electric insect killer at Aldi: light curls, practically no mosquitoes to
As a customer, it is rightly assumed that the UV-lamps, the vermin attracts targeted in the case, but there can be no question. Because of the bluish light moths, and moths can be mainly attract, do not a living soul harm.
The reason is that The Moths are based on the moon and other celestial bodies. The scientifically most common navigation theory. Blood-sucker, however, after the body scent and heat of their victims. Light plays for mosquitoes hardly a role.
this is evidenced by The study of the nature conservation Union of Germany, of the chip.de reported. In Bonn, installed killer lamp 3.742 insects went into the (electricity)network, however, only 52 mosquitoes were including. About 99 percent of the dead animals were, therefore, the people are completely harmless insects.
mosquito killer lamps at Aldi: German society for nature conservation indignant
The nature conservation Association has, therefore, a clear opinion of the insects brutzlern. "Available on the market insect killer lamps are a Nuisance," scolds Julian Heiermann, "on the one Hand, have to contend with an increasing insects of poverty, on the other hand, in addition, such devices often misleading to be advertising promise."
Also, what is the Referent for environmental information with misleading advertising means promise, is no mystery. Because the second hook of the UV has to Fall it.
insect traps at Aldi in the offer: bargains can be expensive display included
What hardly anyone knows, the UV-Drop-to-assemble Outdoor, is illegal. The abnormally high Rate of "foreign fishing" led to strict Adoption of the Federal nature conservation act and the Federal protection of species regulation. Who hangs a insects brutzler in the garden, is, therefore, a violation of the law and risked in addition to a fine, even a display.
UV-Falling in review: Aldi responsive disappointing
The Online magazine chip.de confronted with the Discounter, the Findings are clear-cut to fall to the offered light. The reaction of Aldi Nord came close to rather a vertröste the phrase: "The two of us offered insect killer the brand QUIGG are provided in spaces intended for the reduction of undesired insects in dry interior", asserted the press service of the Discount chain, "of course, we would like to remind our customers to be clearly visible on the packaging of the devices, as well as in the owner's manual several times to the fact that these are intended exclusively for indoor use. A wrong use or a purchase under false assumptions with regard to the use to be excluded for the purpose.“
A look at the offer of Aldi Nord reveals, however, The product description, at least in the Online Shop does not deliver a word to the terms of use of UV Traps.
to be The mosquito lamp is looming in the own goal for Aldi Nord. The group was Recently with another product, even a leg, and received a full-blown Shitstorm.
mockery it was from a competitor, Lidl, however. In a hilarious advertising campaign, he took almost all of the German supermarket and Discount chains, on the
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Date Of Update: 26 July 2019, 12:00
