safety information _07WARNINGSTATE OF CALIFORNIAPROPOSITION 65 WARNINGS:The California Safe Drinking Water and ToxicEnforcement Act requires the Governor of Californiato publish a list of substances known to the Stateof California to cause cancer, birth defects, or otherreproductive harm, and requires businesses towarn of potential exposure to such substances.This product contains a chemical known to theState of California to cause cancer, birth defects, orother reproductive harm. This appliance can causelow-level exposure to some of the substanceslisted, including benzene, formaldehyde, andcarbon monoxide.WARNINGCRITICAL DISPOSAL WARNINGS• DANGER : Risk of child entrapment.Before you throw away your oldrefrigerator or freezer:- Take off the doors and door latch.- Leave the shelves in place so that childrencannot easily climb inside.• Ensure that none of the pipes on the back ofthe appliance are damaged or broken prior todisposal.• Either R-600a or R-134a is used as arefrigerant.Check the compressor label on the rear ofthe appliance or the rating label inside therefrigerator to see which refrigerant is used inyour refrigerator.If your refrigerator contains R-600a, which ishighly flammable, contact your local authoritiesregarding the safe disposal of this product.Cyclopentane is used in the insulation ofthis refrigerator. Consequently, the insulationmaterial in the refrigerator requires specialdisposal procedures. Please contact your localauthorities regarding the environmentally safedisposal of this product.• When disposing of this or any other refrigerator,remove the door/door seals and door latchso that children or animals cannot becometrapped inside. Children should be supervisedto ensure that they do not play with or enter theappliance.- If trapped inside, a child may get hurt orsuffocate to death.• Please dispose of the packaging material forthis product in an environmentally friendlymanner.• Keep all packaging materials well out of thereach of children, as packaging materials canbe dangerous to children.- If a child places a bag over his or her head, thechild could suffocate.ADDITIONAL TIPS FORPROPER USAGE• In the event of a power failure, call the localoffice of your Electricity Company and ask howlong it is going to last.- Most power failures that are corrected withinan hour or two will not affect your refrigeratortemperatures.However, you should minimize the number ofdoor openings while the power is off.If the power failure lasts more than 24 hours,remove all frozen food.• If keys are provided with the refrigerator, thekeys should be kept out of the reach of childrenand not be in the vicinity of the appliance.• The appliance might not operate consistently(frozen contents can thaw or temperaturescan become too warm in the frozen foodcompartment) when sited for an extendedperiod of time in a location where ambientair temperatures are constantly below thetemperatures for which the appliance isdesigned.• Do not store food which goes bad easily at lowtemperatures, such as bananas and melons.• Your appliance is frost free, which means thereis no need to manually defrost your appliance,This will be carried out automatically.• Temperature rise during defrosting complieswith ISO requirements. But, If you want toprevent an undue rise in the temperature of thefrozen food while the appliance defrosts, wrapthe frozen food in several layers of newspaper.• Any increase in temperature of frozen foodduring defrosting can shorten its storage life.• Do not re-freeze frozen foods that have thawedcompletely.DA68-02918A-01.indb 7 13. 4. 25. �� 2:30