Like others have already posted, I held onto my EVACU8 units. They still haven't reached their expiration dates. Besides, the recall period is over, at least to get any sort of refund from Brookdale.

I'm still looking around, and sort of hoping that either Brookdale or maybe another manufacturer will step up to fill the gap of a compact, moderately priced smoke hood that also filters CO. So far, the closest that I can find is the "Safe Escape" smoke hood. I think I'm simply biased against the product because there are a number of websites advertising it, but the websites are all a bit amateurish.

Actually, the product itself looks decent, except that it's not anywhere near as compact as the soda can-sized EVACU8. The Safe Escape smoke hoods have passed certifications from the EU, Japan, and Australia/New Zealand. The higher priced EVAC+ met the EU requirements, but that's it, so just going by certifications, the Safe Escape is an even more rigorously developed product than the EVACU8 or EVAC+. (And why doesn't the US still not have its own certification for smoke hoods?)

At MSRP of around $90, it's seems reasonably priced. Before the EVACU8 recall, I remember that if you bought lots of three or four, you could get them for like $50/unit, so the price has gone up. Maybe they don't need to try and get them into more people's hands as badly as they used to, after the EVACU8 recall.