Hot water bottle safety

How very interesting, never knew that.I’ll be checking my ancient old bottle ,I bet it’s twenty years old🫢

I knew this and threw away my lovely bottle and replaced it with one from Tesco, only to find that the new one was actually made before my old one! Lesson learned….check the flower before you buy.

some esp younger people do not seem aware of how to safely use hot water bottles, ie to expel air carefully, and never use boiling water.
OP thanks for the reminder re age too; when i ran a safety check project on electric blankets years ago everyone thought theirs was newer than it was.
some said they'd had it perhaps 5 years; the expert we engaged identified it as manufactured 25 years ago, and not sold since 21 years ago.
we had an arrangement with a well known retailer to supply a new blanket to any elder who presented with an unsafe one.
those were the days !
one had to be carefully bagged and tagged to hazardous waste as it contained asbestos !
one blanket that is, not one elder.

Thanks for this. Had absolutely no idea about the dates being on it.
And not sure I was aware there is a lifespan to hot water bottles anyway.