Recalls Baby Seats, Metal Jewelry, Diego Boats, Halloween Pails, Bobble Heads, Cake Decorations

About 1 million Bumbo Baby Sitter seats are sort of being recalled after the Consumer Product Safety Commission received 28 reports of children falling out and suffering injuries. In three cases, children suffered skull fractures after falling from seats that were placed on tables.

Essentially, the seats are not going to be fixed or replaced, and will instead receive new warning stickers that will include this line:

“WARNING – Prevent Falls; Never use on any elevated surface.”

The South African-made seats were sold from August 2003 through October 2007 at Target, Wal-Mart, Sears, Toys ‘R’ Us, Babies ‘R’ Us, USA Babies, other retailers and via the Internet. While I’ve seen these seats in other people’s homes, I thought the foam rubber material was a bit creepy.

Additional

198,000 Beary Cute, Expressions and Sassy & Chic Children’s Metal Jewelry are being recalled because of high levels of lead. The Chinese-made jewelry was sold from December 2005 through July 2007 at Dollar Tree, Dollar Bill$, Dollar Express, Greenbacks and Only $1 stores.

Item numbers are as follows:
Beary Cute: 855589
Expressions: 873091 or 873097
Sassy & Chic: 903950

110,000 WeGlow Children’s Metal Jewelry are being recalled because of high levels of lead. The Chinese-made flashing rings were sold from December 2005 through August 2007 at Dollar Tree, Dollar Bill$, Dollar Express, Greenbacks and Only $1 stores. The rings, which have item number 920422 on the package, include Shrek the Third and Spiderman designs.

142,000 Purple Halloween Pails sold at Family Dollar Stores are being recalled because of excessive lead in green paint. The Chinese-made pails were sold from August 2007 through October 2007.

97,000 Children’s Toy Gardening Tools are being recalled because of excessive lead paint. The Chinese-made gardening tools were sold from January 2007 through September 2007 at Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft stores. This expands on a previous recall of toy rakes and toy watering cans.

80,000 Football Bobble Head Cake Decorations are being recalled because of excessive lead on body paint. The Chinese-made cake decorations were sold from January 2006 through October 2007 at bakeries and cream stores nationwide.

The bobble heads include the following teams:

• Baltimore Ravens
• Green Bay Packers
• Oakland Raiders
• Chicago Bears
• Indianapolis Colts
• Philadelphia Eagles
• Cincinnati Bengals
• New England Patriots
• Pittsburgh Steelers
• Dallas Cowboys
• New Orleans Saints
• San Francisco 49ers
• Denver Broncos
• New York Giants
• St. Louis Rams

38,000 Go Diego Go Animal Rescue Boats are being recalled by Mattel-owned Fisher-Price Inc. because of excessive lead paint. The Chinese-made, water-squirting orange and yellow boats were sold from June 2007 through October 2007 at various retail stores.

Comments

[Abel]

Geez, when I first saw this baby seat, I thought it was cool. Apparently, it's not. Thanks for keeping us posted with the recalls (*sad*)

[brettdl]

Actually, I don't think anything is really wrong with the child seat. Parents just need to be careful not to stick them up on a counter or tabletop. They seem perfectly safe when on the ground.

[KC]

Placed on tables! The edge, no doubt. The parents should be in trouble, not the company making the seats.

[brettdl]

Well, the company is not in too much trouble. Just new stickers. But yeah, in this case the problem is on the parenting side.