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Australia/Canberra: RichardsandWood, an Etsy store based in Australia, recalls certain batch/lots of Montessori Wooden Star Baby Rattle Toys from the Australian marketplace due to suspected failure to comply with requirements of Australia’s mandatory standard ‘Consumer Protection Notice No. 14 of 2003 – Consumer Product Safety Standard: Toys for children up to and including 36 months of age’ and consequential risks of choking, oral injury, GI tract laceration damage and bowel obstruction, all serious health and safety hazards requiring immediate medical intervention to minimize pain and suffering as well as prevent life-changing injury.
ACCC: https://rb.gy/6zm72
Direct link: https://www.productsafety.gov.au/recalls/richardsandwood-%E2%80%94-handmade-montessori-star-rattle
Additional information:
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (“ACCC”) reports the following Children’s Rattle Toys are subject to this recall:
Filed under: ACCC, Children, Choking or asphyxiation hazard, Home & Residential, Ingestion hazard, Labeling or regulatory issues, Toys | Tagged: ACCC, ACCC PRA number: 2023/19864, Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, baby, child choking hazard, children, choking hazard, death hazard, Etsy store, infants, ingestion hazard, ingestion hazards, Laceration hazards, oral injury, Recalls Direct RIN: 17471-2023, RichardsandWood, Suffocation hazards, toy | Leave a comment »