Company: Meijer stores in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky sold the jackets, from July 2003 through October 2003, for between $26 and $33.
Product Type: Other Children’s Product
Hazard Type: Fall / Injury Hazard
Hazard: These jackets have hood drawstrings. Children can get entangled and strangled in the drawstrings that catch on objects, including playground equipment, fences and tree branches.
Hazard: The bunk beds have openings between the guardrails and in the end structures that are too large. A child's body could slide between the openings and could become trapped by the head, posing a serious strangulation hazard.
Product: Lightning PAC Scooters and MX3 Mini Bikes
Company: Mass merchants and toy stores nationwide sold scooters, between November 2001 and October 2003, for about $250 and sold mini bikes, between May 2003 and September 2003, for about $200.
Product Type: Toys / Play Products
Hazard Type: Fall / Injury Hazard, Battery Hazard
Hazard: The motor control circuits can malfunction, causing the scooters and mini bikes to continue to run after the power or throttle button is released, posing a risk of injury to children.
Hazard: The multicolored sidewalk chalk contains high levels of lead, posing a risk of poisoning to young children. The Wisconsin Department of Health tested the chalk and identified the lead in the chalk.
Product: Amazing Baby™ Listen and Play activity book
Company: Retail stores, national book chains, wholesalers and distributors, and membership warehouse clubs nationwide sold the activity books, from May through October 2003, for $16.
Product Type: Baby / Infant Products
Hazard Type: Choking Hazard
Hazard: The hub of the pink dial embedded in the inside back cover can come off during use in some of these books, posing a choking hazard to young children.
Company: BRIO® Corp., of Germantown, Wis., a subsidiary of BRIO AB of Sweden
Product Type: Toys / Play Products
Hazard Type: Choking Hazard
Hazard: The three rubber feet, which are screwed into the bottom of the drum, could be removed in some cases, posing a choking hazard to young children.
Hazard: These bunk beds have openings between the guardrails and between guardrails and the end structures that are too large. A child's body could slide between the opening and become trapped by the child's head. This poses a strangulation hazard to children.
Product: Pack 'n Play portable play yards with raised changing tables
Company: Discount, department and juvenile product stores nationwide sold these portable play yards, from October 2001 through September 2003, for between $99 and $119.
Hazard: When children are placed in these portable play yards. when the changing table is still in place, they can crawl under and lift the table up. If this occurs, a child's head and neck can become trapped between the changing table and the play yard...
