The US Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled a NEWDERY power bank on September 24, 2026, after its lithium-ion battery was found to explode or ignite. The model is the ZHX-PB22, and CPSC's own notice says about 21,380 units were sold on Amazon between October 2023 and November 2024. If you bought a portable charger on Amazon in that window, checking the model number printed on the case takes less time than reading this paragraph did.
What CPSC actually found
The agency lists nine reports of these power banks exploding or igniting, including one fire serious enough to cause significant property damage and one report of a burn injury. That is the full count CPSC has published as of the recall date — it is not a failure rate, and CPSC has not said what share of the 21,380 units sold ever malfunctioned. The remedy is a refund directly from NEWDERY, not a repair or a replacement unit, which is the usual response once a battery defect can't be fixed after the fact rather than designed out from the start.
How to tell if yours is the one
The model number ZHX-PB22 is printed on the body of the power bank itself, so there's no need to dig up a receipt to check. NEWDERY sold this specific model exclusively through its own storefront on Amazon.com, not through other retailers or under a different brand name, so a portable charger bought somewhere else isn't covered by this notice even if it looks similar. If the number matches, CPSC's instruction is to stop using it immediately — not to run it down safely first, not to keep it as a backup until a replacement arrives — and to contact NEWDERY to start the refund.
What a recall like this does and doesn't tell you
A lithium-ion cell that explodes or ignites is usually a defect specific to how a particular battery pack was built or designed, not something inherent to power banks as a category — the same chemistry sits safely inside hundreds of millions of phones, laptops and chargers already in daily use. This recall says nothing about power banks from other brands, and it doesn't mean every ZHX-PB22 unit sold is dangerous, only that CPSC and NEWDERY judged the risk high enough to pull the model rather than wait for more incidents to accumulate. What's worth taking from it regardless of which brand you carry: a power bank that's warm when it isn't charging anything, that looks swollen or puffed at the seams, or that smells unusual is a reason to stop using it and look up the model, not a detail to shrug off until it's convenient.
It's also worth remembering these units sold for over a year, which means some are now sitting in a drawer as a backup, or got passed along as a hand-me-down after the original owner upgraded — the kind of secondhand path a recall notice doesn't reach on its own. If a NEWDERY charger came to you that way, the model number check applies just the same. And because these were only ever sold through NEWDERY's own Amazon listing rather than in retail stores, there's no shelf display or in-store notice to catch — the recall exists entirely online, in the same place the unit was bought, which is exactly where it's easiest to miss if you're not looking for it.
NEWDERY's wasn't the only lithium-battery recall CPSC posted that day. The same September 24 batch included INMO's Air3 smart glasses, pulled over a temple that can overheat during extended wear — a different product and a different failure mode, but the same underlying risk: a battery built into something carried close to the body, recalled by model number rather than by brand reputation.
Neither recall changes anything about the phone, laptop or watch you already own unless it happens to be one of these two specific products. What both are worth as a reminder is that a lithium battery recall reaches you through the model number stamped on the device, not through how trustworthy the brand on the box seemed at checkout — and that check costs less time than plugging the thing in for one more charge.
Last updated September 27, 2026