Product Recall Number: 16-080
Why was Britax B-Ready strollers recalled?
The foam padding on the stroller's arm bar can come off in fragments if the child bites the arm bar, posing a choking hazard.
Product Recall Number: 16-080
Product Safety Warning Number:
Date: 2016-01-21
Product Safety Warning Date:
Name Of Product: Britax B-Ready strollers
Description: The foam padding on the stroller's arm bar can come off in fragments if the child bites the arm bar, posing a choking hazard.
Hazard Description: The foam padding on the stroller's arm bar can come off in fragments if the child bites the arm bar, posing a choking hazard.
Consumer Action: None Listed
Original Product Safety Warning Announcement: None Listed
Remedy Type: Repair
Units: About 49,000 in the U.S. (in addition, 11,000 were sold in Canada)
Incidents: Britax has received 117 reports of children biting the arm bar foam padding, including five reports of children choking or gagging on foam fragments.
Remedy: Consumers should immediately remove the arm bar from recalled strollers and replacement top seats and contact Britax for a free black, zippered arm bar cover and a warning label to apply to the strollers and replacement top seats. Consumers can continue to use their strollers without the arm bar attached.
Sold At: Babies R Us, buybuy Baby, Target and other stores nationwide and online at Amazon.com, Diapers.com and other websites from April 2010 through January 2016 for about $500 for the stroller. The replacement top seats were sold by Britax from April 2010 through January 2016 for about $150.
Importers: Britax Child Safety Inc., of Fort Mill, S.C.
Manufacturers: None Listed
Distributors: None Listed
Manufactured In: China
Custom Label: None Listed
Custom Field: None Listed