News January 2014 Edition

CONSUMER PROTECTION News January 2014 Edition Dear Wisconsin Children’s Safety Advocates: In December 2013, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a total of 19 recalls relating to products affecting children. Attached is a summary of the releases identifying the product, the problem, and what should be done with the recalled product. We have found that not all of the recalls are picked up by the news media as they occur. This monthly summary will give you the opportunity to review all of the children’s product safety recalls for the past month. If you are interested in a complete text of the recall, double click on the hyperlink at the end of the recall description. This will direct you to the recall notice located on the CPSC website. Landscape Structures Recalls Oodle Swings Due to Injury Hazard (14-705) Cubetensils Children’s Eating Utensils Recalled by Edoche Due to Choking Hazard (14-070) Playtex Recalls Hip Hammock Infant Carriers Due to Fall Hazard (14-069) Browning Recalls Junior Hoodie Due to Strangulation(14-067) Fox Factory Recalls Evolution Mountain Bike Suspension Forks Due to Fall Hazard (14-063) WISCONSIN Mirage Fashions Recalls Yoki Girls Faux Leather Jackets with DEPARTMENT OF Drawstrings Due to Strangulation Hazard (14-050) Doodlebutt Recalls Jelly BeadZ Jumbo BeadZ and Magic Growing AGRICULTURE, Fruity Fun Toys Due to Serious Ingestion Hazard TRADE AND (14-056) CONSUMER Trek Recalls Madone Bicycles Due to Crash Hazard (14-055) IKEA Recalls Children’s Wall-Mounted Lamps (14-052) PROTECTION Ram’s Imports Recalls Girls’ Pink Leopard Jackets (14-051) Solowave Recalls Home Playground Tube Slides with Port Holes Due to Laceration Hazard (14-049) Academy Sports + Outdoors Recalls Girls BCG Hooded Windsuits Due to Strangulation Hazard (14-043) Wearever Girl’s Hooded Jacket Sets Recalled by David’s Place Due to Strangulation Hazard (14-040) Manhattan Group Recalls Baby Rattles (14-039) SRAM Recalls Derailleurs for Bicycles Due to Fall Hazard OFFICE LOCATION (14-038) K2 Sports Recalls Kickboards/Scooters Due to Fall Hazard (14-037) 2811 Agriculture Drive Joovy Recalls Zoom Car Seat Stroller Adapter due to Fall Hazard Madison, WI 53708-8911 (14-072) Specialized Recalls Source Eleven and Source Expert Disc 1-800-422-7128 Bicycles Due to a Fall Hazard (14-073) 608-224-4960 Cabrinha Kiteboarding Recalls H2 Binding Due to Risk of Injury (14-074) 1 If you would like to sign up for the Keep Your Kids Safe newsletter, please subscribe at https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/WIDATCP/subscriber/new?topic_id=WID ATCP_161 or contact Bobbi Erb at (608) 224-4955 or [email protected]. If you have any questions or want to file a complaint regarding an unsafe product, contact: Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection Bureau of Consumer Protection 2811 Agriculture Drive M adison, WI 53708 (800) 422-7128 (toll free in Wisconsin) KEEP YOUR KIDS SAFE Release Number: (#14-705) Landscape Voluntary Product Recall at the bottom of the Structures Inc., of Delano, M.N., is announcing page for more information. the voluntary recall of about 177 Landscape Structures’ Oodle Swings. The swing frame is a double arch, comes in a variety of colors and measures 9 ½ ft. high by 13 ½ ft. long by 4 ½ ft. wide. The swing seat is an oval-shaped ring, measures 4 ft. wide by about 3 ½ ft. deep, comes in a variety of colors and is suspended from the frame by four black cables or chains. The swing seat holds as many as six children. Landscape Structures is printed on label near ground level on the frame. The swing set’s http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/Recall- Alerts/2014/Landscape-Structures-Recalls-Oodle-Swings/ model number 173592 is printed in the swing’s instruction manual. “Landscape Structures” is Release Number: (#14-070) Edoche, Inc., of molded in the black rubber bumper of the swing Seattle, W.A., has announced the voluntary seat.girl’s “Susan” Sandals. recall of about 1,100Edoche’s Cubetensils sets Problem: The swing seat is suspended too of children’s eating utensils. Each set consists of close to the ground, posing an injury hazard to a spoon and a matching fork with stainless steel children who can get their legs caught heads and plastic handles. The handle has three underneath the swing seat. segments that rotate to create design What to do: Consumers should stop using the combinations. The utensils are 5.75-inches long swings immediately and measure the distance and were sold in seven different between the bottom of the swing seat and the models/designs: alphabet, moon and stars, ground. If the distance is less than 12 ¾ inches, nature, princess, rockets, trucks and veggies. contact Landscape Structures for a free repair. The sets come in a brown cardboard box with a Landscape Structures is contacting its clear viewing window in the front. “Edoche” is customers directly. You can contact Landscape printed on the bottom of the utensils and Structures Inc. toll-free at (888) 438-6574 from 8 “Stainless Steel China” is embossed on the a.m. to 5 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, or metal heads. The phrase “Not for children under online at www.playlsi.com and click on U.S. 3” appears on the back of the product’s packaging. 2 Problem: The utensil’s handle can detach, posing a choking hazard to infants. What to do: Consumers should immediately take the utensils away from children and contact Edoche for a full refund.You can contact Edoche by calling collect (774) 295-0170 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PT Monday through Friday or online at www.edoche.com then click on About Us at the top of the page for more information. Customers can also send an email to [email protected]. http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/2014/Playtex-Recalls-Hip- Hammock-Infant-Carriers/ Release Number: (#14-067) Browning, of Morgan, U.T., announces the voluntary recall of about 4,300 hooded Buckmark junior sweatshirts in sizes S, M, L and XL. The sweatshirts are made of polyester fabric. The camouflaged print pullover sweatshirt comes with black drawstrings and has a yellow embroidered Buckmark logo located on the front http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/2014/Cubetensils-Childrens- of the garment. There are pockets located near Eating-Utensils-Recalled-by-Edoche/ the waist. The sweatshirt has a hood, and rib knit cuffs and waist Release Number: (#14-069) Playtex Products Problem: The hooded sweatshirts have Inc., of Dover, D.E., announces the voluntary drawstrings around the neck area that pose a recalls about 305,000 and 36,000 in Canada strangulation or an entanglement hazard to Playtex Hip Hammock infant carriers. The young children. In February 1996, CPSC issued Playtex Hip Hammock is an infant carrier guidelines about drawstrings in children's upper designed to strap the baby against the outerwear. In 1997, those guidelines were caregiver’s body at the hip. It is made of a soft, incorporated into a voluntary standard. Then, in quilted fabric and intended for babies that are July 2011, based on the guidelines and from 15 to 35 pounds. The child seat is attached voluntary standard, CPSC issued a federal with straps that wrap around the carrier’s hips regulation. CPSC’s actions demonstrate a and shoulder. “Playtex Hip Hammock” is printed commitment to help prevent children from on a label sewn into the front of the carrier. All strangling or getting entangled on neck and model numbers are being recalled. Model waist drawstrings in upper outerwear, such as numbers 05300, 05301, 05302, 05306, 05307 jackets and sweatshirts. and 05308 are sewn into the inside panel below What to do: Consumers should immediately the instructions for use. They come in basic and remove the drawstrings from the hooded deluxe styles. The hip hammock’s fabric is sweatshirts to eliminate the hazard or return the suede or ultra-suede in black or navy colors on garment to Browning for a full refund. You can the outside, and the inside lining is black, black contact Browning Browning at (800) 727-4312 and white check or burgundy. Problem: The from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. MT Monday through buckles on the waist and shoulder straps can Friday, online at www.browning.com and click crack or break, posing a fall hazard to the child. on Recall at the top of the page, or email at What to do: Consumers should stop using the [email protected] for more carrier and contact Playtex for instructions on information. how to return the product for a full refund. You can contact Playtex at (800) 522-8230 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET Monday through Friday or online at www.playtexproducts.com and click on Recall for more information. 3 http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/2014/Browning-Recalls- Junior-Hoodie/ http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/2014/Fox-Factory-Recalls- Release Number: (#14-063) Fox Factory, of Evolution-Mountain-Bike-Suspension-Forks/ Watsonville, C.A., is announcing the voluntary recall of about 11,250 in the U.S. and 1,250 in Release Number: (#14-050) Mirage Fashions of Canada suspension forks are model year 2013, N.Y., is announcing the voluntary recall of about 32 and 34 Evolution Series with 120mm to 758 girl’s hooded faux leather jackets with a 160mm of travel. The Evolution name and logo zipper front closure and bearing a Yoki Girls are on a sticker on the front fork with the FOX label at the neck. They were sold in girl’s sizes 7 brand name logo.

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