Keep forward of the curve with our weekly information to the most recent developments, vogue, relationships and moreStay forward of the curve with our weekly information to the most recent developments, vogue, relationships and extra Keep forward of the curve with our weekly information to the most recent developments, vogue, relationships and extra
A well-liked teething toy for infants has been recalled after dozens of shoppers reported choking incidents.
About 6,800 items of the Yetonamr Pull String Teething Toys, offered on Amazon by Longyanguiheng of China, have been recalled as a result of they “violate the necessary customary for toys,” america Client Product Security Fee reported Thursday.
Based on the federal company, the silicone strings on the infant toys “are smaller than permitted,” to allow them to “attain the again of the throat and grow to be lodged, posing a danger of respiratory misery, severe choking hazard and loss of life.”
The recall was issued after the company turned conscious of 32 choking incidents linked to the toys.
The product is an off-white, disc-shaped child toy that includes a pink or blue ball at its centre, three free-spinning rings and gentle push buttons, together with six lengthy, multicoloured silicone pull-strings threaded by means of the ball.
open picture in gallery
The recalled merchandise ‘violate the necessary customary for toys,’ the U.S. Client Product Security Fee (Getty Photographs/iStockphoto)
open picture in gallery
There have been 32 reported choking incidents within the US as a result of Yetonamr Pull String Teething Toys (United States Client Product Security Fee)
Recalled merchandise, offered on Amazon.com from June 2025 by means of October 2025 for between $10 and $16, may be recognized by the Mannequin quantity 688-59 on the packaging.
Customers ought to cease utilizing the infant toys instantly and speak to Longyanguiheng for a full refund. Anybody with the product “ought to minimize and discard all silicone string tentacles, write ‘DESTROYED’ on the primary physique of the toy utilizing a everlasting marker,” and e mail a photograph of it to yetonamr_recall@163.com, in response to the fee.
The teething toys are one in all a number of merchandise for kids which have lately been recalled within the U.S. In December, greater than 10,000 KTEBO-branded writing tablets offered on Amazon had been recalled on account of a danger of great harm or loss of life from battery ingestion.
The Client Product Security Fee mentioned “the screw used to safe the battery compartment that incorporates a button cell battery doesn’t stay hooked up,” inflicting a hazard.
Cubimana treehouse constructing toy units had been additionally recalled over fears of battery ingestion. The toys, offered on Shein, have battery compartments that “may be simply accessed by youngsters,” the fee mentioned.
In each recollects, the fee warned that if ingested, batteries may cause accidents comparable to inside chemical burns.
Individually, CreateOn Crayola-branded Pip-Cubes had been recalled over a magnet ingestion hazard, after hundreds of the magnetic constructing units had been offered by means of Michaels and Amazon.
The Client Product Security Fee mentioned the magnets contained in the cubes can come unfastened. If swallowed, the high-powered magnets might entice to 1 one other — or to different metallic objects — and grow to be lodged in a toddler’s digestive system.
The company warned that this could trigger intestinal perforations, twisting or blockages, blood poisoning, and, in extreme instances, loss of life.
