Q1 2024 Consumer Product Recalls Analysis

Q1 2024 – CPSC

Product

Reason(s)

Children’s Clothing (Including Sleepwear)

·        The recalled children’s sleepwear violates the flammability regulations for children’s sleepwear, posing a risk of burn injuries to children.

·        The plastic pieces on the end of the pants’ faux drawstrings can come loose and fall off, posing a choking hazard.

Durable Nursery Product

·        The crib’s support pins can become loose and allow the mattress to fall, posing a fall hazard to children.

·        The baby nests do not have a stand, and do not meet the requirements for side height, sleeping pad thickness, and fabric-sided openings. The product’s sides are shorter than the minimum side height limit; the sleeping pad’s thickness exceeds the maximum limit; and an infant could fall out of an enclosed opening at the foot of the lounger or become entrapped.

·        The recalled highchair, which converts into a booster seat, violates the safety regulations for both highchairs and booster seats. Multiple failures were identified including, but not limited to, insufficient restraint system, stability, static load, latching and locking mechanisms, leg openings, warnings, labels, and literature. The product can tip over or collapse and present a fall hazard to children.

·        The swings pose a suffocation risk because they were marketed, intended, or designed for infant sleep, and they have an incline angle greater than 10 degrees in violation of the Sleep for Babies Act. In addition, the swing fails to meet mandatory warning requirements regarding sleep under the swing standard.

Toys

·        The toys contain one or more magnets that fit within the CPSC’s small parts cylinder, and magnets are stronger than permitted. When high-powered magnets are swallowed, the ingested magnets can attract each other, or another metal object, and become lodged in the digestive system, resulting in perforations, twisting and/or blockage of intestines, infection, blood poisoning and death.

·        The rhinestones in tiaras contain levels of lead that exceed the Federal lead content ban. Lead is toxic if ingested by young children and can cause adverse health effects.

·        The toy components can detach, posing a choking hazard to young children.

·        If the acceleration pedal on the battery-operated ride-on toy becomes clogged with debris, it can stick after the user’s foot is removed from the pedal, posing a crash hazard.

Q1 2024 – Health Canada

Product

Reason(s)

Children’s Sleepwear

·        The foot grips of the sleeper pajamas may fall off or be removed through repeated washing, posing choking and ingestion hazards.

Kitchen & Dining

·        The pot handle can detach or become loose posing burn or scald risk to consumers from hot food and liquids spilling from the product.

·        The recalled ceramic plates contain Lead and Cadmium in excess of allowable limits. Lead and Cadmium are highly toxic, especially to children. A range of serious health effects have been associated with exposure to lead and cadmium, including anemia, vomiting, diarrhea. Lead is associated with heart and immune system disorders. Other effects associated with Cadmium are convulsions, coma, as well as effects related to the liver, kidneys, heart and immune system. In extreme cases, there have been deaths.

Floor Coverings

·        The snow mat’s liquid metal electrode can get punctured during product transportation and may short-circuit during use and cause fire.

Window Coverings

·        The recalled blinds do not meet the Corded Window Coverings Regulations and pose a strangulation hazard. Young children may pull looped cords around their neck, or become entangled in the cords, causing a strangulation hazard and even death.  In addition, the products can also release small parts that present a choking hazard to young children.