Parents and caregivers should be forewarned this holiday season – some toys that are attractive to oral-age children, including products resembling food or candy, could have small parts that are dangerous. For example, on December 12, 2013, about 1,500 water-absorbing polymer toys made in
On December 04, 2013, Manhattan Toy® Quixel™ baby rattles were recalled as the result of finding that the product’s colored arches can break, creating a small part that poses a choking hazard to small children. About 8,300 of these children’s products were sold in the
Over the course of decades, the toy industry has produced and sold numerous products that pose ingestion and choking hazards for oral-age children. Often, the hazards are related to small parts that can detach, and can fit into the airway if ingested, with the
A recall has been issued for more than 25,000 Sulley character stuffed animals sold at Build-A-Bear Workshop stores and online. The stuffed animal's eye can detach, posing a choking hazard to young children. Sulley is a furry blue creature from the Monsters movies. The
This recall includes about 30,000 light-up soft plastic toy frogs and ducks. The toys light up when the sensors on the bottom of the product are touched or placed in water. The frog comes in green and the ducks come in yellow, pink, and clear.
These soft and colorful water-absorbing polymer balls can be easily mistaken by a child for candy. When the marble-sized toy is ingested, it can expand inside a child's body and cause intestinal obstructions, resulting in severe discomfort, vomiting, dehydration, and could be life-threatening. The toys
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) ended fiscal year 2012 having stopped a total of about 4.8 million units of products that violated U.S. safety rules or were found to be hazardous during the fiscal year (October 2011 to September 2012). More than
Florida Federal District Court Judge Kathleen M. Williams issued a significant sentenced to Hung Lam, President of LM Import-Export Inc. to 22 months incarceration in federal prison, three years of supervised release and a $10,000 fine for pleading guilty to conspiracy to traffic and