CPSCRecalled Mar 19, 2001 · #01110
CPSC, Eight Firms Announce the Recall of Zapper Toys
Hazard
The balloon tongues and the cylinders holding the tongues on these toys can detach, posing a choking and aspiration hazard to young children.
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Get started, freeDescription
The vinyl Zapper toys are about 2 to 3 inches long, and come in 12 different styles: smiley face, globe with glasses, troll, bumble bee, lion, bear, tiger, raspberry face, fish, frog, snake, and lizard. When the toy is squeezed, the balloon tongue attached to its mouth inflates or rolls out. "CHINA" or "MADE IN CHINA" is molded into the toy.
Product details
- Product
- Bug Zapper toys
- Type
- Toy Animals Stuffed/Not Stuffed
- Manufacturer
- Not specified
- Model numbers
- —
- UPCs
- —
- Sold at
- Toy stores, doctor and dentist offices, and carnivals and circuses sold and distributed these toys, from October 1998 through March 2001. They were sold for about $1.
- Made in
- China
What you should do
Consumers should immediately take these toys away from young children and take them back to where they were purchased, for a refund, or throw them away.