Categories: Health Canada Recall Notices
Looks like even Harry Potter can’t escape “excess levels of lead”. These Harry Potter bookends were sold through various school fundraisers and the paint on the bookends contains high levels of lead. *Lead is toxic if ingested by young children and can cause adverse health effects.*
Those darn muggles.
Categories: Health Canada Recall Notices
I’ve recently had correspondence with a toy retailer in Canada, who is a distributor of “Melissa and Doug” products. When you walk into their stores, they have shelves upon shelves, display cases and window decals of their proud display of Melissa and Doug products. So when I notified them of …
Categories: Health Canada Recall Notices
I started this blog because of the possibility that we were affected by a toy recall. We owned a Melissa and Doug Geometric Stacker which had a recall notice associated to the product.
The very idea that a trusted toy manufacturer, toys that we had brought into our home, had …
Categories: Health Canada Recall Notices
Being from the “Lip Smacker” generation, I had to post this recall by Bonne Bell because “Some of the clasps, which attach to the zipper pull on these accessory bags, have been determined to contain excess levels of lead. As a result, The Bonne Bell Company, in conjunction with …
Categories: Health Canada Recall Notices
There has been a recall on a Children’s Balloon Blowing Kit which “consist of a solvent mixture in a tube and one or more plastic straws for blowing. Children can form balloons or bubbles by dipping the short straw into the solvent and blowing through the straw.” Aside from …
Categories: Health Canada Recall Notices
Of all the toys that are the least likely to cross the threshold of our home, are magnetic toys. Quite honestly, I am AMAZED that there is still a market for them on Canada’s toy shelves (especially for under the age of 5 group). Playwell Enterpriseshas just issued …
Categories: Health Canada Recall Notices, Toy Safety Warnings
There are recalled toys still available for purchase?!?
Here is a news clip from November 2007 from ABC News on the expose of purchasing toys recalled online. I have decided to post this video due to its current relevance. If the consumers are not notified of the recalls, regardless of the …
