It comes after consumer group Which? said most of the devices they tested posed a 'serious safety risk' to users.
TikTok and Temu have pulled cheap electric heaters from their online stores after Which? found they could explode or start house fires.
It said the devices, some of which had been promoted by influencers on TikTok, posed "a serious safety risk" to users.However, despite both companies removing the items from sale, Which? said it had found that more similar listings had since appeared in their place. "It's vital that the government urgently gives greater legal responsibility to online marketplaces for unsafe products so that they are forced to take action to prevent dangerous products ending up in people's homes."TikTok Shop is interwoven into the video-sharing app, with products available on it frequently appearing in creators' videos on the platform.
Lesley Rudd, chief executive of Electrical Safety First, urged them to take responsibility for their actions, saying they had "a moral duty" to ensure the products they recommended to followers were safe."The way we shop has changed, possibly forever, yet it is utterly illogical that our laws have not, leaving people shopping on these online platforms grossly unprotected from dangerous electrical products," she said.