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Category: Product Recalls

City Planner Blocks from Pure Play Kids (Giveaway!)

Posted on: Jul 8, 2011

Filed Under Healthy Home, Product Recalls, Toy Safety | 181 Comments

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I was looking around my house not long ago and wondering how I ended up with so many plastic toys. It shows up and it accumulates. My biggest peeve with most plastic toys is not that it may not be recyclable or clog up a landfill, but that many times the plastic stuff only entertains them for [...]

Children’s Tylenol, Motrin, Benedry Recalled by McNeil Consumer Healthcare

Posted on: May 2, 2010

Filed Under Product Recalls, Product Safety | 8 Comments

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Thank you to a reader (Thanks Heather!) for emailing me about this today. I was busy with my 4 year old at a Chuck E Cheese party and hadn’t even a moment to sit down today. Anyway, McNeil Consumer Healthcare announced a voluntary recall of several brands of Children’s medication including Children and Infant Tylenol, [...]

Infant Carrier Cart Seats Recalled due to Fall Hazard

Posted on: Dec 23, 2009

Filed Under Car Safety, Product Recalls, Product Safety | 1 Comment

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I noticed this recall in my email, and as you know, we don’t typically post an article about every recall but when it comes to bigger items and massive recalls like car seats and cribs I try to bring it up. I know how busy we all mare being parents or grandparents that sometimes these [...]

Recall Alert: Maclaren Recalling Strollers Due to 12 Fingertip Amputations

Posted on: Nov 9, 2009

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We generally don’t post recalls, here, but this is a big one, and so many of my friends have Maclaren strollers. They’re one of the most popular lightweight strollers out there. So when I found out they were recalling one million of them because of severed fingers, I figured, I should probably scrape the [...]

Partial Tylenol Recall

Posted on: Sep 22, 2009

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Tylenol is issuing a “warehouse recall” on several different types of Infant and Children’s Tylenol due to a contamination. According to the folks at Babble, the drug is still safe, but you may want to call and find out if your bottle is part of the recall: The best news? The drug is safe. It’s [...]

Organic Candy This Easter: Natural Candy Store

Posted on: Mar 24, 2009

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Here comes Peter Cotton Tail…hopping down the organic bunny trail… Easter is on it’s way! We have a couple weeks and I know I’m not the only one who’s been oogling the Easter candy selection at the grocery store. I started to think about what is going into my kids Easter basket this year. I’m [...]

Industry Poises to Ban Drop-Side Cribs

Posted on: Mar 22, 2009

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I’m a tad late in typing this up, thanks to a sick 3 year old – but I wanted to quickly highlight this. The Consumer Reports blog reported about it, and I also stumbled on it over at Polliwogged and DaddyTypes (2 great GREAT blogs to be reading by the way) so you can get [...]

FDA Warns Against Salmonella Outbreak in Peanut Butter Products

Posted on: Jan 18, 2009

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(Updated 1-20-09) Just a heads up to our fellow SafeParents regarding the recent slew of recalls and announcements regarding a Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak in the U.S. Some of you may have heard it already but this was relatively new news to me so I thought I’d share just in case. Sample results from a plant [...]

Crib Recalls – What To Do?

Posted on: Jan 14, 2009

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I was just interviewed by the Palm Beach Post regarding the latest slew of crib recalls announced by Jardine. Since then over 500,000 cribs have been recalled by Stork Craft as well, urging parents to stop using the crib immediately. In the case of the Jardine cribs, instances of crib slats were breaking creating a [...]

Over 1 Million Discovery Car Seats Recalled

Posted on: Feb 16, 2008

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As I mentioned in my previous post, here’s some more information I ran across in my surfing. No leeching chemicals, but it’s important nonetheless. Always register your car seat so you can receive important product recall information. Evenflo announced a voluntary safety recall of the Discovery Infant Car Seat models 390, 391, 534,and 552. The [...]