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Products Recalled For Safety Concerns

Aired February 20, 2002 - 06:43   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The Consumer Product Safety Commission is really busy. That means you have to get busy going through the kids' toy boxes. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has been checking on several products, many of them for children.

CNN's Skip Loescher brings us that.

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SKIP LOESCHER, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced that Random House is recalling about 39,000 copies of its "Monster in the Closet" children's board book.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The snap holds this book together, but the problem is that the snap pulls right off and can be a choking hazard to kids.

LOESCHER: Consumers are asked to cut off the snap and send it to the company for a free replacement book. The CPSC cited a similar hazard for these cuddly creatures.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: These are the Snuggle bears, and the hazard is that the nose or the eye can come loose and be a choking hazard to a child. There were millions of the Snuggle bears distributed.

LOESCHER: Parents urged to take the bear away from their children and contact the company to get a coupon for free Snuggle fabric softener.

Seventeen models from the Gearbox Pedal Car Company are also being recalled.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is a metal truck that kids can sit in and pedal. The hazard is that the paint is lead. And there's a federal standard that says no child's product should have lead paint.

LOESCHER: Again, parents are urged to take the car away from their children and contact the company, this time, for a replacement.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In all of these cases it's been a cooperative relationship between the company and the government.

LOESCHER (on camera): As far as we know, no one has been injured or killed by any of these products. But the CPSC simply doesn't want to take any chances.

Skip Loescher, CNN, Bethesda, Maryland.

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