Companies recall children’s items over product safety concerns

Children’s product recalls overview: 

• Who: The Children’s Place, Zipadee Kids, TOMY and The Simplay3 Company recently conducted child product recalls, while the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission warned consumers not to use infant loungers manufactured by La-La-Me. 
• Why: The companies and commission initiated the recalls and warning over safety risk concerns, including choking, falling, suffocation and entrapment. 
• Where: The recalls and warning affect consumers nationwide. 

Several companies and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently initiated children’s product recalls over safety-related concerns, including risks of choking, falling, suffocating and entrapment. 

The recently recalled children’s products include baby and toddler jeans, kids’ beds, high chairs and toddler towers. 

The Children’s Place recalls baby, toddler jeans due to potential choking hazard

The Children’s Place recalled two styles of baby and toddler jeans last month over concerns they could pose a choking hazard for young children because the metal snaps on the jeans can detach. 

The recall includes around 94,000 pairs of Baby and Toddler Boy Basic Stretch Straight Leg Jeans sold exclusively at The Children’s Place stores from Sept. 2022 to March 2023. 

The Children’s Place says it received one report of metal snaps detaching from the recalled baby and toddler jeans with no reports of injury. 

The recall also includes around 1,800 pairs sold in Canada. 

Zipadee Kids recalls Montessori beds over entrapment, strangulation hazards

Zipadee Kids recalled around 7,450 of its Zipadee Montessori beds last month over concerns they could pose an entrapment and strangulation hazard due to the spacing of the spindles on the item’s frame. 

The company is concerned the spindles on the convertible bed frames are not big enough for a child’s head to pass through despite being large enough for their torso. 

At least two children have become entrapped in the bed rails of the recalled Zipadee Montessori beds, including a 21-month-old boy who was uninjured and a 4-year-old girl who sustained minor injuries, according to the Zipadee recall. 

The CPSC urged consumers who own the recalled Zipadee Montessori beds to dispose of them, while cautioning not to resell or donate them, warning it would be a violation of federal law. 

TOMY Boon Flair, Flair Elite highchairs recalled over fall risk concerns

TOMY recalled around 83,000 of its Boon Flair and Flair Elite highchairs last month over concerns bolts used to secure the seat of the recalled chairs to their pedestal base could come loose and cause the seat to detach, creating a fall risk. 

The recall, which also involves around 2,850 Boon Flair and Flair Elite highchairs sold in Canada, includes Boon Flair highchairs manufactured prior to Sept. 2016 and all Boon Flair Elite highchairs. 

TOMY received 34 reports of the highchairs separating from their base, resulting in a total of 24 falls and 11 injuries, such as bruising or scratches, according to the recall. 

Simplay3 recalls 110,000+ toddler towers due to tip-over concerns 

The Simplay3 Company initiated a recall for more than 110,000 of its Simplay3 Toddler Towers last month over concerns they could tip over while in use, creating a fall and injury hazard for young children. 

The recall, which includes 5,512 Simplay3 Toddler Towers sold in Canada, involves espresso, white and gray toddler towers with model number 41807 that were sold nationwide from Nov. 2018 to June 2023. 

Consumers who own the recalled Simplay3 Toddler Towers, which sold for around $90, should immediately stop using them and contact Simplay3 directly to receive a free set of stabilizing bases that can be attached to the toddler tower.

Simplay3 received 16 reports of the recalled toddler towers tipping over while in use, resulting in 10 injuries, including six head contusions, according to the recall. 

CPSC warns consumers to stop using La-La-Me infant loungers that fail to meet federal safety standards

The CPSC warned consumers last month to stop using La-La-Me infant loungers over concerns they fail to meet mandatory federal safety standards and could pose both a suffocation risk and fall hazard to infants. 

The La-La-Me infant loungers fail to meet federal safety standards by not having a stand and not meeting requirements for their side height, fabric-side openings, markings, labeling and instructional literature, according to the CPSC. 

The CPSC says La-La-Me has not agreed to recall the product, despite the agency’s warning to consumers.

“CPSC urges consumers to immediately stop using the loungers, cut the fabric and dispose of the cut-up lounger,” the CPSC warning states.

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