CPSC, KinderkidsTM Announce Recall of Inflatable Playrings for Babies

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Brand

KinderkidsTM

Product

Inflatable playrings

Units

About 18,000

Sold at

Walmart stores, and One Step Ahead, a mail-order company, sold the playrings, from July 1998 through April 2000, for between $20 and $35.

Understand the issue

When a baby leans his face against the side of the playring, the soft surface covers the baby's nose and mouth, restricting airflow, and posing the risk of suffocation.

Babies sit inside the playring, which is used as an activity center and looks like a pool float. The recalled playring, which measures 40 inches in diameter, has a yellow, plastic, inflatable, inner tube with a multicolor cloth covering. The cloth covering features eight activities for babies, including a boat rattle, a mirror flower, a soft teether on a puppy's collar, a butterfly, and a squeak ball and fish. A tag on the bottom of the cloth covering reads "Warning!" and "Recommended for children 6 to 18 months." The packaging reads, "Discovery Playring," "MADE IN CHINA" and "Not to be used in water." They are sold with plastic foot pumps for inflating the playrings.