United States
Zippee Activity Toys — a teal flexible silicone cylinder with holes and six colored silicone strings (five strings have spherical ball ends), sometimes marked inside with date codes 030620 to 110823 — are recalled. The spherical ends can reach the back of the throat, posing a serious choking hazard; Mobi Games reported one choking/gagging incident. Consumers should stop using the toy, take it away from children, destroy the toy by cutting off the spherical ends and writing initials and date on the cylinder, and contact Mobi Games for a full refund.
What's being recalled
This recall involves the Zippee children's activity silicone toy. The body of the toy is a teal flexible silicone cylinder with holes where six different color silicone strings can be pulled. Five of the six silicone strings contain a spherical ball attached to the end of the string. The recalled toy may have the date codes in MMDDYY format ranging from 030620 to 110823 marked inside the toy's silicone cylinder body.
Manufactured in: China.
The hazard
The recalled silicone activity toys contain spherical ends that can reach the back of the throat, posing a serious choking hazard to children.
Incidents and injuries: Mobi Games is aware of one incident involving a child placing the toy in his/her mouth and gagging, resulting in vomiting and choking. The child was released from medical care with no further injuries.
What to do
Consumers should stop using the recalled toy immediately, take it away from children and contact Mobi Games to receive a full refund. Consumers will be asked to register their product online by first confirming they have an affected version with spherical ends on the strings and then by providing a photo of the destroyed toy. Consumers will be directed to destroy the toy by cutting the spherical ends off the silicone strings and writing their initials and date on the teal cylinder.
Contact: Email at recall@playmobi.com or online at www.playmobi.com/pages/product-recall or www.playmobi.com and click on "Contact Us" at the top of the page for more information.
Where it was sold
Amazon.com and PlayMobi.com and other online platforms and in specialty toy stores from November 2019 through January 2024 for about $20.
The official notice
This page is a summary of the notice published by U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, collected from U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Check the original before you act on it.
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