Toy Recalls
Name of product: Dollies Hazard: The hands on the plush dolls can detach, posing a choking hazard to young children. Units About 2,500 Description This recall includes plush handmade baby dolls in five styles and colors. The all fabric dolls measure about 12 inches tall and 10 inches wide. The dolls are dressed in [...]
Name of product: 2012 Huffy® 20-Inch Slider Tricycle Hazard: The handlebar can unexpectedly loosen while in use, causing the rider to lose control. This poses crash and fall hazards for the rider. Units About 5,040 Description The recalled product is 2012 model year 20-inch, three-wheeled Slider. The tricycle has a white frame with a black [...]
Name of product: Children’s Wooden Puzzles Hazard: Small pegs on the puzzle boards can loosen and separate from the boards, posing a choking hazard to children. Units About 4,000 Description The recalled products are Ryan’s Room brand Spin-A-Mals Farm and Spin-A-Mals Safari puzzles intended for children over 12 months of age. Both toys are made [...]
Name of product: Buckyballs and Buckycubes high-powered magnet sets Hazard: These products contain defects in the design, warnings and instructions, which pose a substantial risk of injury and death to children and teenagers. Description The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with six retailers, is announcing the voluntary recall of all Buckyballs [...]
Name of product: Urban Shredder Ride-On Toys Hazard: The Urban Shredder ride-on toys can unexpectedly accelerate and cause the rider to lose control, posing a fall hazard. Units About 8,900 Description This recall involves battery-operated Hot Wheels branded Urban Shredder ride-on toys. The toys were sold in green and black (Model Nos. 8801-05 and 8801-05com) [...]
Name of product: Basic Beat BB201 standard egg shaker Hazard: The outer “end cap” that is glued onto the top, smallest part of the egg can come off, posing a small part choking or aspiration hazard. Units About 6,500 Description These recalled egg-shaker toy instruments are plastic, egg-shaped instruments sold in five colors: yellow, green, [...]
Name of product: Imaginarium Activity Walkers Hazard: The small bolt and spacer that attaches each front wheel to the walker can detach, posing a choking hazard to young children. Units About 9,000 Description The recalled Imaginarium Activity Walkers have a round wooden push handle on the top of a curved triangle-shaped wooden walker base with [...]
Name of product: Beamerzzz™ Stuffed Animals with LED Flashlight Hazard: LED flashlight wires can protrude through the stuffed toy, posing a laceration hazard. Units About 7,200 Description The recalled Beamerzzz stuffed toys come with LED flashlights sewn into the left paw. The toys are 12 inches high and come in five animal types. The model [...]
EU Votes to Ban 3-acetyl-2,5-dimethylthiophene
It has been decided by the European Commission and European Union member states that the flavoring substance 3-acetyl-2,5-dimethylthiophene should be banned. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published a scientific opinion and press release on 16 May that said: ‘The flavoring substance 3-acetyl-2,5-dimethylthiophene is genotoxic (that is, it can damage DNA, the genetic material of [...]
What We Know About Concussions
Your brain is your body’s command center. Its soft, sensitive tissues float in a cushioning fluid within the hard and sturdy skull. But a swift blow to the head or violent shaking can override these protections and lead to a mild type of brain injury known as a concussion. More than 1 million mild traumatic [...]
Flu in Pregnancy May Quadruple Risk for Bipolar Disorder in the Child
Pregnant mothers’ exposure to the flu was associated with a nearly fourfold increased risk that their child would develop bipolar disorder in adulthood, in a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The findings add to mounting evidence of possible shared underlying causes and illness processes with schizophrenia, which some studies have also linked [...]
NHS England to Tackle Shockingly Low Dementia Diagnosis Rates
NHS England is to tackle “shockingly low” dementia diagnosis rates with plans that could see 160,000 people who are unknowingly living with the condition identified and treated, Jeremy Hunt announced today. The plans, announced as the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia reached its first year, will aim to see two-thirds of people with dementia identified [...]
CDC Finds Suicide Rates Among Middle-aged Adults Increased From 1999 to 2010
Suicide deaths have surpassed deaths from motor vehicle crashes in recent years in the United States. In 2010 there were 33,687 deaths from motor vehicle crashes and 38,364 suicides. Suicide rates among middle-aged Americans have risen substantially since 1999, according to a report in CDC journal, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. “Suicide is a tragedy [...]