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Product Recall Number: 11146

Why was Circo beaded door curtains recalled?

Strangulations can occur when a child plays with the beaded strands by wrapping them around their necks or by creating loops in which they can insert their heads. Also, children can get entangled in the strands, which are prone to entangle, just by running through the doorway.

Circo beaded door curtains
Here's product recall specific data for Circo beaded door curtains.

  • Product Recall Number: 11146

  • Product Safety Warning Number:

  • Date: 2011-02-28

  • Product Safety Warning Date:

  • Name Of Product: Circo beaded door curtains

  • Description: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.

  • Hazard Description: Strangulations can occur when a child plays with the beaded strands by wrapping them around their necks or by creating loops in which they can insert their heads. Also, children can get entangled in the strands, which are prone to entangle, just by running through the doorway.

  • Consumer Action: None Listed

  • Original Product Safety Warning Announcement: None Listed

  • Remedy Type: Refund

  • Units: 79000

  • Incidents: The firm has received three reports of entanglement. In January 2009, a nine-year old girl was entangled while passing through the beads and nearly choked as she continued walking through the curtain. In January 2010, a six-year old girl in Reno, Nev. became entangled in the bead strands as she passed through them and suffered slight lacerations to her neck. In April 2010, a girl became entangled as the beads swung back behind her father who had walked through the beads before her. She was pulled off her feet and momentarily suspended before she regained her footing and she received scratches to her neck.

  • Remedy: Consumers should immediately take down the curtains and return them to any Target store for a full refund or store credit.

  • Sold At: Target stores nationwide and target.com from January 2009 through May 2010 for between $13 (at target.com) and $15 in stores

  • Importers: None Listed

  • Manufacturers: FAB/Starpoint LLC, of New York, N.Y.

  • Distributors: None Listed

  • Manufactured In: China

  • Custom Label: None Listed

  • Custom Field: None Listed

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