Children’s dental toys sold at Target are being recalled due to the risk of suffocation

According to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), a baby toy sold exclusively at Target has been recalled because it poses a choking hazard.

According to the agency’s warning notice, Battat’s B. toy Firefly Frank Infant Teethers, shaped like a firefly, could injure a young child because it could ‘loosen the plastic wings of the body from the teeth’.

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About 61,000 of the baby teeth sold at Target locations in the United States are included in this memory. About 210 teeth were also sold in Canada.

The toy company, Battat, has already received 14 reports of the wings loosening or pieces of the wing breaking off. In one case, a child suffocated to a broken wing, CPSC said.

Battat issued a notice on its website urging consumers to ‘immediately remove the withdrawn teeth from young children and send them back to any Target store’ for a refund, even if they have not ‘ a receipt.

The item can be returned to any Target store or sent to Battat.

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The blue, green and red light toys have been sold nationwide and online from July 2019 to February 2021.

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