When unpacking it smells strongly of chemicals, but that is fortunately only the black part on the strip is coiled. The LED bar and the accessories (remote control, power adapter) smell really hard to not at all.
Power consumption of 5m strip at bright white stage: 33W
Power consumption of the bar at the lowest level 5m white: 11W
I cut the bar to approximately 4 meters and it still works;)
I would recommend the bar safely.
Update 18/11/2014:
since about 1 months half of the blue LED has stopped working. Blue LEDs are not to keep long been known, but that they hold only half a year, that's news to me. It now work only colors which are composed of green and red. Colors need also blue light (including also white) no longer function because the blue component is missing. Therefore, devaluation of 2 stars.