Defects that caused Samsung Electronics Co.’s Note 7 phones to burst into flames last year revealed that the industry’s voluntary standards for the design and manufacture of rechargeable batteries aren’t adequate to protect safety, a U.S. consumer-safety regulator has concluded.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission, which negotiated a recall of 1.9 million of the phones and is conducting its own investigation, on Tuesday said in a press release that standards for lithium-ion batteries in mobile phones need to be updated.
