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Price: $59.99
Manufacturer or Distributor:
Heeling Sports Ltd., Carroliton, Texas.
Hazard: Potential for blunt impact, head and spinal injuries.
Comment: These popular shoes turn children's sneakers into a type of in-line skate. These items are marketed to children who may not be prepared for their associated risks.";
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Price: $12.99
Manufacturer or distributor:
Gumption Toys, San Francisco
Age recommendation: Ages 8 and up
Hazard: Potential for facial and choking injuries.
Comment: This product is marketed as being capable of \"turbo launching\" water balloons up to 100 feet, with \"Direct-hit Accuracy!\" A package insert includes warnings such as \"be alert, water balloons may travel in unanticipated directions\" and \"NEVER\" throw at \"unsuspecting people\" or \"at people within 20 feet.\" Also, balloons themselves pose a recognized choking hazard in the hands of children.";
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Price: $23.99
Manufacturer or Distributor:
Haba, Germany
Age Recommendation: None
Hazard: Potential for strangulation and ingestion injuries.
Comment: This \"patch of flowery meadow\", consisting of a cord approximately 23.5 inches long with attached beads and other small cloth and wooden play items, is sold specifically for use on a \"stroller or crib\". Nevertheless, the box includes a warning stating: \"Do not attach crib or playpen.\" The small ball attachments, even if not removed from the cord, present a potential choking hazard for babies.
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Price: $29
Manufacturer or Distributor:
Pottery Barn Kids, San Francisco
Age Recommendation: 12 months and up
Hazard: Potential for blunt impact and puncture injuries.
Comment: The Pottery Barn Kids stacking toy, which contains multi-colored tiers, includes pyramid-shaped rigid, wooden parts, intended to be stacked upon a solid-wood dowel. A toddler who falls on the inflexible toy could suffer severe impact injuries. The manufacturer fails to provide any warnings despite marketing the toy for toddlers as young as 12 months.";
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Price: $6.50
Manufacturer or Distributor:
Parris Manufacturing Company, Savannah, Tenn.
Age Recommendation: 6 and up
Hazard: Potential for eye or other severe injuries.
Comment: This bow and arrow set includes rubber-tipped \"arrows\" made of solid wood. The tips, however, are removable, and the rigid, wooden shafts can be propelled with sufficient velocity to potentially cause severe injuries.
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Price: $9.99
Manufacturer or Distributor:
Goldberger Doll Mfg. Co., New York
Age Recommendation: 1 and up
Hazard: Potential for ingestion and choking injuries.
Comment: Young children are encouraged to engage in seven \"learning activities,\" including buttoning, zipping and snapping. One version has a red plastic button on the doll's clothing, attached using only thread, which could be ingested by oral-age children. Another doll has a soft, plush ball attached to the zipper, which also presents a potential choking hazard.";
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Price: $6.44
Manufacturer or Distributor:
Mattel's Fisher-Price Inc., East Aurora, N.Y.
Age Recommendation: 1 and up
Hazard: Potential for strangulation and entanglement injuries.
Comment: Despite the industry's voluntary standard requiring strings on playpen or crib toys to be less than 12 inches in length, some manufacturers continue to market toys such as this \"Lil Snoopy\" pull toy, with a cord measuring approximately 27 inches. Sold to be your child's \"very first puppy,\" it is intended for children as young as 12 months and thus is a prime candidate for cribs and playpens.
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Price: $9.87
Manufacturer or Distributor:
Idea Nuova Inc., New York
Hazard: Potential for electric shock injuries.
Comment: This colorful \"lamp\" purchased in a toy department, comes with warnings which state, in part: \"This is an electric product -- not a toy! To avoid risk of fire, burns, personal injury and electric shock it should not be played with or placed where small children can reach it.\" Incredibly, families are further instructed to unplug the product \"when leaving the house, when retiring for the night, or if left unattended.\" The manufacturer's proclamation that the figurine is not a toy has little meaning to small children, who may be attracted to the figurine and thus be exposed to the potential electrical hazard.
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Price: $3.99
Manufacturer or Distributor:
Rhino Toys, Santa Cruz, Calif.
Age recommendation: 6 and up
Hazard: Potential for eye injuries
Comment: This is sold as an \"All In One Rocket & Launcher!\" The manufacturer warns, among other cautions, not to aim at \"the eyes or face of a person as an injury could result\", and further instructs that users must \"alert all within range when launching Sky Blaster.\" Remarkably, children are also encouraged to \"bend fins ... to achieve spinning flights\".
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Price: $5.49
Manufacturer or Distributor:
Brand New Products, Chicago
Hazard: Potential for choking and ingestion injuries.
Comment: These pouches containing \"spine-chilling spiders,\" \"mystery meat,\" and a \"buzzard buffet,\" pose a \"candy challenge\" to children, asking: \"Is fear a factor for you?\" The grotesque buffet, available in the toy aisle, is based upon the television series which sometimes features contestants competing to eat as much as possible in the shortest time."; // END editorial data