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Abha Bhattarai, The Washington Post
Published 11:50 am, Thursday, November 9, 2017
Fidget spinners, the multipronged, whirling devices that turned so well-liked this 12 months some colleges banned them as a distraction, have been marketed as playful diversions meant to badist individuals relax and focus.
But now a shopper advocacy group says two varieties of fidget spinners being bought at Target might be harmful. The gadgets – Fidget Wild Premium Spinner Brbad and Fidget Wild Premium Spinner Metal – have been discovered to comprise as a lot as 330 instances the federal authorized restrict for lead in youngsters’s merchandise, in keeping with lab badessments carried out for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) Education Fund.
The group is looking on Target to cease promoting the gadgets and problem recollects for those they’ve already bought.
Target mentioned the fidget spinners, which promote for $19.99 on-line and in retailer, aren’t toys, however fairly “general use products” as a result of they’re marketed to customers 14 and up. (Federal legislation defines “children’s products” as gadgets which are designed primarily to be used by these 12 and below.)
Photo: Carlos Osorio /Associated Press
A toys retailer proprietor performs with a fidget spinner in Oxford, Mich. A shopper advocacy group says two varieties of fidget spinners being bought at Target might be harmful because of lead content material.
A toys retailer proprietor performs with a fidget spinner in Oxford, Mich. A shopper advocacy group says two varieties of fidget spinners being bought at Target might be harmful because of lead content material.
Photo: Carlos Osorio /Associated Press
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Product Name:
IKEA MYSINGSÖ seashore chairs
Safety Concerns: The seashore chairs can collapse, posing fall and fingertip amputation hazards.
Recall Date: Jan. 27, 2017
Product Name:
IKEA MYSINGSÖ seashore chairs
Safety Concerns: The seashore chairs can collapse, posing fall and fingertip amputation hazards.
Recall Date: Jan. 27, 2017
Photo: Courtesy Of U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
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Product Name:
Vecaro Lithium-ion battery packs within the self-balancing scooters/hoverboards
Safety Concerns: The lithium-ion battery packs within the self-balancing scooters/hoverboards can overheat, posing a threat of smoking, catching fireplace and/or exploding.
Recall Date: March 23, 2017
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Vecaro Lithium-ion battery packs within the self-balancing scooters/hoverboards
Safety Concerns: The lithium-ion battery packs within the self-balancing scooters/hoverboards can overheat, posing a threat of
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Photo: Courtesy Of U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
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Safety Concerns: May comprise undeclared Almonds
Recall Date: April 11, 2017
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Safety Concerns: May comprise undeclared Almonds
Recall Date: April
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Product Name:
Britax B-Agile and BOB Motion Strollers with Click & Go receivers
Safety Concerns: A broken receiver mount on the stroller may cause the automobile seat to disengage and fall unexpectedly, posing a fall hazard to infants within the automobile seat.
Recall Date: Feb. 16, 2017
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Britax B-Agile and BOB Motion Strollers with Click & Go receivers
Safety Concerns: A broken receiver mount on the stroller may cause the automobile seat to disengage and fall unexpectedly, posing a fall
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Photo: Courtesy Of U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
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Product Name:
XBOX ONE Battery chargers within the online game controller
Safety Concerns:The battery chargers can overheat and injury the online game controller, posing a burn hazard to customers.
Recall Date: March 14, 2017
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XBOX ONE Battery chargers within the online game controller
Safety Concerns:The battery chargers can overheat and injury the online game controller, posing a burn hazard to customers.
Recall Date: March
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Product Name:
Blue Buffalo Company voluntarily recalled one manufacturing lot of BLUE Wilderness® Rocky Mountain RecipeTM Red Meat Dinner Wet Food for Adult Dogs
Safety Concerns: Potential to comprise elevated ranges of naturally- occurring beef thyroid hormones.
Recall Date: March 17, 2017
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Blue Buffalo Company voluntarily recalled one manufacturing lot of BLUE Wilderness® Rocky Mountain RecipeTM Red Meat Dinner Wet Food for Adult Dogs
Safety Concerns: Potential to comprise elevated
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Mylan N.V. introduced that Meridian Medical Technologies, a Pfizer firm and Mylan’s manufacturing badociate for EpiPen® Auto-Injector, has expanded a voluntary recall of choose numerous EpiPen (epinephrine injection, USP) and EpiPen Jr® (epinephrine injection, USP) Auto-Injectors to now embody extra tons distributed within the U.S.
Safety Concerns: Reports of failure to activate the system because of a possible defect in a provider part.
Recall Date: March 31, 2017
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Mylan N.V. introduced that Meridian Medical Technologies, a Pfizer firm and Mylan’s manufacturing badociate for EpiPen® Auto-Injector, has expanded a voluntary recall of choose numerous EpiPen
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Product Name:
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Mickey Mouse Nightlights
Safety Concern: Liquid from the nightlight can leak onto outlet, posing a hearth hazard.
Recall Date: Feb. 2, 2017
Product Name:
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Mickey Mouse Nightlights
Safety Concern: Liquid from the nightlight can leak onto outlet, posing a hearth hazard.
Recall Date: Feb. 2, 2017
Photo: Courtesy Of U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
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Hill Country Fare Thin, Hill Country Fare Extra Thin, Hill Country Fare Wheat, H-E-B Extra Thin, H-E-B Round Top White, H-E-B Split Top White, H-E-B Texas Toast, H-E-B 100% Whole Wheat, H-E-B Split Top Honey Wheat
Safety Concerns: Possible presence of a single piece of rubber within the product.
Recall Date: April 20, 2017
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Safety Concerns: Inconsistent quantities of belladonna alkaloids that will differ from the calculated quantity on the merchandise’ labels.
Recall Date: April 13, 2017
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Product Name:
Osprey Poco little one carriers
Safety Concerns: A toddler seated within the provider can slip by means of the leg openings, posing a fall hazard to youngsters.
Recall Date: April 27, 2017
Product Name:
Osprey Poco little one carriers
Safety Concerns: A toddler seated within the provider can slip by means of the leg openings, posing a fall hazard to youngsters.
Recall Date: April 27, 2017
Photo: Courtesy Of U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
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Frito-Lay recollects Jalapeño Flavored Lay’s Kettle Cooked Potato Chips and Jalapeño Flavored Miss Vickie’s Kettle Cooked Potato Chips
Safety Concerns: Potential presence of Salmonella
Recall Date: April 21, 2017
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Frito-Lay recollects Jalapeño Flavored Lay’s Kettle Cooked Potato Chips and Jalapeño Flavored Miss Vickie’s Kettle Cooked Potato Chips
Safety Concerns: Potential presence of Salmonella
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Product Name:
Feld Enterntainment Light-spinner toy wands bought solely at “Disney On Ice” and “Disney Live Shows”
Safety Concerns: The prime part of the light-spinner toy wands can detach and expose an Eight-inch steel rod, posing an harm hazard to younger youngsters.
Recall Date: Feb. 9, 2017
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Feld Enterntainment Light-spinner toy wands bought solely at “Disney On Ice” and “Disney Live Shows”
Safety Concerns: The prime part of the light-spinner toy wands can detach and expose an
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Product Name:
Linon Home Decor Cynthia dressers bought solely at Wayfair.com
Safety Concerns: The recalled chests are unstable if they don’t seem to be anchored to the wall, posing a severe tip-over and entrapment hazard that can lead to loss of life or accidents to youngsters.
Recall Date: Jan. 11, 2017
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Linon Home Decor Cynthia dressers bought solely at Wayfair.com
Safety Concerns: The recalled chests are unstable if they don’t seem to be anchored to the wall, posing a severe tip-over and entrapment
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Photo: Courtesy Of U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
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Product Name: Juratoys Toy trolleys
Hazard: The toy trolleys can tip backwards, posing an impression harm hazard to youngsters.
Recall Date: March 29, 2017
Product Name: Juratoys Toy trolleys
Hazard: The toy trolleys can tip backwards, posing an impression harm hazard to youngsters.
Recall Date: March 29, 2017
Photo: Courtesy Of U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
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Product Name:
Rock Salt Lamps bought at Micahel’s
Safety Concerns: The dimmer swap and/or outlet plug can overheat and ignite, posing shock and fireplace hazards.
Recall Date: Jan. 10, 2017
Product Name:
Rock Salt Lamps bought at Micahel’s
Safety Concerns: The dimmer swap and/or outlet plug can overheat and ignite, posing shock and fireplace hazards.
Recall Date: Jan. 10, 2017
Photo: Courtesy Of U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
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Evanger’s Dog & Cat Food voluntarily expanded its recall of Hunk of Beef and can be recalled Evanger’s Braised Beef and Against the Grain’s Pulled Beef Products
Safety Concern: Potential adulteration with pentobarbital.
Recall Date: March three, 2017
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Evanger’s Dog & Cat Food voluntarily expanded its recall of Hunk of Beef and can be recalled Evanger’s Braised Beef and Against the Grain’s Pulled Beef Products
Safety Concern: Potential
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Product Name:
Whiskware™ glbad dressing shaker bottles
Safety Concerns: The backside of the glbad dressing shaker bottle can break when the steel agitator strikes the glbad backside, posing a laceration hazard.
Recall Date: March 30, 2017
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Whiskware™ glbad dressing shaker bottles
Safety Concerns: The backside of the glbad dressing shaker bottle can break when the steel agitator strikes the glbad backside, posing a laceration
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Product Name:
Cost Plus World Market Stafford Windsor-style eating chairs
Safety Concerns: The legs on the chairs can break, posing a fall hazard to customers.
Recall Date: April 18, 2017
Product Name:
Cost Plus World Market Stafford Windsor-style eating chairs
Safety Concerns: The legs on the chairs can break, posing a fall hazard to customers.
Recall Date: April 18, 2017
Photo: Courtesy Of U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
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Product Name:
Customatic Beds Adjustable beds
Safety Concerns: The mattress’s side-mounted AC shops might be incorrectly wired, posing an electrical shock hazard to customers.
Recall Date: April 12, 2017
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Customatic Beds Adjustable beds
Safety Concerns: The mattress’s side-mounted AC shops might be incorrectly wired, posing an electrical shock hazard to customers.
Recall Date: April 12, 2017
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Product Name:
ECX Circuit, Ruckus, and Torment remote-controlled mannequin automobiles
Safety Concerns: The car’s digital pace management (ESC) can fail and quick circuit, posing a hearth hazard.
Recall Date: April 25, 2017
Source: CPSC
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ECX Circuit, Ruckus, and Torment remote-controlled mannequin automobiles
Safety Concerns: The car’s digital pace management (ESC) can fail and quick circuit, posing a hearth hazard.
Recall Date: April
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Product Name:
One World Technologies Ryobit Tools Electric Blowers
Safety Concern: The plastic fan inside blowers can break, inflicting the fan blades to be discharged from both finish of the blower tube. This poses a laceration hazard.
Recall Date: March 2, 2017
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One World Technologies Ryobit Tools Electric Blowers
Safety Concern: The plastic fan inside blowers can break, inflicting the fan blades to be discharged from both finish of the blower
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Piano benches bought with Yamaha grand piano
Safety Concerns: The paint on the piano bench’s inside compartment accommodates an extreme degree of lead. This is a violation of the federal lead paint normal.
Recall Date: Feb. 21, 2017
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Piano benches bought with Yamaha grand piano
Safety Concerns: The paint on the piano bench’s inside compartment accommodates an extreme degree of lead. This is a violation of the federal lead paint
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Product Name:
Razor RipStik electrical motorized caster boards
Safety Concerns: The rear wheel can cease rotating and lock up whereas in use, posing a fall hazard.
Recall Date: April 20, 2017
Product Name:
Razor RipStik electrical motorized caster boards
Safety Concerns: The rear wheel can cease rotating and lock up whereas in use, posing a fall hazard.
Recall Date: April 20, 2017
Photo: Courtesy Of U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
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Product Name:
Little Live Pets Lil Frog and Lil Frog Lily Pad toys
Safety Concerns: When the button batteries are faraway from the toy frogs, the battery’s cap can change into a projectile and the battery’s chemical substances can leak, posing chemical and harm hazards.
Recall Date: Feb. 22, 2017
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Little Live Pets Lil Frog and Lil Frog Lily Pad toys
Safety Concerns: When the button batteries are faraway from the toy frogs, the battery’s cap can change into a projectile and the battery’s
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Product Name:
La-Z-Boy Power provides bought with raise chairs
Safety Concerns: The raise chair’s energy provide cowl can crack inside the screw housing and break, inflicting the quilt to detach and expose the ability provide’s electrical parts, posing a shock hazard to customers.
Recall Date: Feb. Eight, 2017
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La-Z-Boy Power provides bought with raise chairs
Safety Concerns: The raise chair’s energy provide cowl can crack inside the screw housing and break, inflicting the quilt to detach and expose the ability
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Product Name:
Active Kyds Kid’s toy shovels and backyard software units bought solely on Amazon.com
Safety Concerns: Excessive lead paint ranges on the yellow shank and black blade on the shovel, and the black paint on the backyard software set violates the federal lead paint normal. In addition, the black plastic shovel deal with and bag clip on the backyard software drawstring bag comprise extreme lead content material ranges, a violation of the federal lead normal. Lead is poisonous if ingested by younger youngsters and may trigger opposed well being impact.
Recall Date: Jan. 10, 2017
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Active Kyds Kid’s toy shovels and backyard software units bought solely on Amazon.com
Safety Concerns: Excessive lead paint ranges on the yellow shank and black blade on the shovel, and the black paint
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Product Name:
Little Tikes™ 2-in-1 Snug n Secure Pink toddler swings
Safety Concerns: The plastic seat can crack or break, posing a fall hazard.
Recall Date: Feb. 23, 2017
Product Name:
Little Tikes™ 2-in-1 Snug n Secure Pink toddler swings
Safety Concerns: The plastic seat can crack or break, posing a fall hazard.
Recall Date: Feb. 23, 2017
Photo: Courtesy Of U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
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Phoenix Food, LLC voluntarily recollects of Dip Trio Mix
Safety Concerns: Potential presence of Salmonella within the seasoning packet
Recall Date: April, 26, 2017
Source: FDA
Product Name:
Phoenix Food, LLC voluntarily recollects of Dip Trio Mix
Safety Concerns: Potential presence of Salmonella within the seasoning packet
Recall Date: April, 26, 2017
Source: FDA
Photo: Courtesy Of The FDA
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Product Name:
Teavana Flip Tumblers
Safety Concerns: The flip tumblers can leak sizzling liquid, posing a burn hazard.
Recall Date: April 11, 2017
Product Name:
Teavana Flip Tumblers
Safety Concerns: The flip tumblers can leak sizzling liquid, posing a burn hazard.
Recall Date: April 11, 2017
Photo: Courtesy Of U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
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Hunt’s Chili Kits are being voluntarily recalled bu Conagra Brands, Inc.,
Safety Concerns: potential presence of Salmonella in a uncooked materials used within the chili seasoning
Recall Date: April 2, 2017
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Hunt’s Chili Kits are being voluntarily recalled bu Conagra Brands, Inc.,
Safety Concerns: potential presence of Salmonella in a uncooked materials used within the chili seasoning
Recall Date: April 2,
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Product Name:
LIVLY youngsters’s robes and two-piece pajama units
Safety Concerns: The youngsters’s robes and pajama units fail to satisfy federal flammability requirements for kids’s sleepwear, posing a threat of burn accidents to youngsters.
Recall Date: March 14, 2017
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LIVLY youngsters’s robes and two-piece pajama units
Safety Concerns: The youngsters’s robes and pajama units fail to satisfy federal flammability requirements for kids’s sleepwear, posing a threat of
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Product Name:
The SoyNut Butter Co. recalled I.M. Healthy Original Creamy SoyNut Butter
Safety Concerns: May be contaminated with Escherichia coli
Recall Date: March four, 2017
Source: FDA
Product Name:
The SoyNut Butter Co. recalled I.M. Healthy Original Creamy SoyNut Butter
Safety Concerns: May be contaminated with Escherichia coli
Recall Date: March four, 2017
Source: FDA
Photo: Courtesy Of The FDA
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Product Name:
John Deere Gator Utility Vehicles
Safety Concerns:The mud boot on the throttle cable can come unfastened, ensuing within the car not slowing down or stopping, posing a crash hazard.
Recall Date: April 11, 2017
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John Deere Gator Utility Vehicles
Safety Concerns:The mud boot on the throttle cable can come unfastened, ensuing within the car not slowing down or stopping, posing a crash hazard.
Recall Date:
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Product Name:
WellPet Wellness 95% Beef Topper for Dogs
Safety Concerns: Potential elevated ranges of naturally occurring beef thyroid hormone.
Recall Date: March 17, 2017
Source: FDA
Product Name:
WellPet Wellness 95% Beef Topper for Dogs
Safety Concerns: Potential elevated ranges of naturally occurring beef thyroid hormone.
Recall Date: March 17, 2017
Source: FDA
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Product Name:
Pulse Performance youngsters’s electrical scooters bought solely at Target
Safety Concerns: The knuckle that joins the wheel of the kids’s electrical scooters to the axle can break, posing a fall hazard to the rider.
Recall Date: Jan. 24, 2017
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Pulse Performance youngsters’s electrical scooters bought solely at Target
Safety Concerns: The knuckle that joins the wheel of the kids’s electrical scooters to the axle can break, posing a
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Barnsdale Farms®, HoundsTooth® and Mac’s Choice® Pig Ears of Lot Number 84 consisting of it is individually shrink-wrapped, 6-pack, 12-pack and 25-pack have been voluntarily recalled by EuroCan Manufacturing
Safety Concerns: Potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.
Recall Date: March 20, 2017
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Barnsdale Farms®, HoundsTooth® and Mac’s Choice® Pig Ears of Lot Number 84 consisting of it is individually shrink-wrapped, 6-pack, 12-pack and 25-pack have been voluntarily recalled by EuroCan
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Safety Concerns: This product might comprise hint quantities peanuts
Recall Date: March 23, 2017
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Nutiva, an Organic Superfoods firm, expanded its preliminary voluntary product recall of the Organic Plant Based Protein Superfood 30 Shake – Vanilla to incorporate all numerous each Vanilla and
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GlaxoSmithKline, LLC voluntarily recalled almost 600,000
Ventolin HFA inhalers
Safety Concerns: Defective Delivery System
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC voluntarily recalled almost 600,000
Ventolin HFA inhalers
Safety Concerns: Defective Delivery System
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Waco-based H&B Packing Co., Inc. recalled roughly 74,000 kilos of beef
Safety Concerns: Sample examined optimistic for E. coli.
Recall Date: March 19, 2017
Waco-based H&B Packing Co., Inc. recalled roughly 74,000 kilos of beef
Safety Concerns: Sample examined optimistic for E. coli.
Recall Date: March 19, 2017
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Fidget spinners bought at Target comprise lead, advocacy group says
“The two fidget spinners cited are clearly marked on the package as ‘appropriate for customers ages 14 and older,’ and are not marketed to children,” a Target spokesman mentioned in an e-mail. “As a result, the fidget spinners identified are not regulated as toys or children’s products and are not required to meet children’s product standards.”
Federal legal guidelines restrict the quantity of lead in youngsters’s merchandise to 100 elements per million (ppm). Laboratory badessments carried out final month confirmed that the Fidget Wild Spinner Premium Brbad contained 33,000 ppm of lead in its heart circle, and 22,000 ppm in its arm, in keeping with U.S. PIRG. The Fidget Wild Premium Spinner Metal, in the meantime, contained 1,300 ppm of lead within the heart circle, and 520 ppm in its arm.
The merchandise are equipped by Bulls-I-Toys, primarily based in Des Moines.
“Safety is one of our top priorities,” Howard Chizick, a spokesman for Bulls-I-Toys, mentioned in an e-mail. “All of our product are tested and comply with [Consumer Product Safety Commission] safety standards.”
Exposure to excessive ranges of lead has been proven to trigger lead poisoning, which might trigger organ injury and long-term well being issues.
U.S. PIRG mentioned it despatched representatives to 5 Target shops across the nation who discovered the spinners being bought within the toy division. The Fidget Wild Spinner Premium Brbad can be being bought on Target’s web site. “Framed as a toy, the fidget spinner is also a great stress-relief tool,” the net description reads. Below that, it says the producer categorizes the toy as being for ages “6 years and up.” (The product’s field, nonetheless, specifies the toy is for “ages 14+.”)
“Saying fidget spinners aren’t toys defies common sense, as millions of parents whose kids play with spinners can tell you,” mentioned Kara Cook-Schultz, toxics director for U.S. PIRG.
The advocacy group says it has notified the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, a federal physique, of the excessive lead ranges. A CPSC spokeswoman mentioned she couldn’t remark particularly on the merchandise bought by Target. On its web site, the CPSC says “most fidget spinners are general use products unless they are primarily intended for children 12 years of age and younger.”
“The CPSC, Target and Bulls-I-Toys need to acknowledge the obvious – that all fidget spinners are toys,” Cook-Schultz mentioned.
The U.S. PIRG publishes an annual report on toy security, which has led to greater than 150 product recollects and regulatory actions over the previous 30 years.
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