Mommies With Style

With so many recalls affecting families this week, we’re offering a quick recap with links for further information.

Graco Recalls Strollers Due to Fingertip Amputation and Laceration Hazards
Recalled products include: About 1.5 Million Graco Passage™, Alano™ and Spree™ Strollers and Travel Systems

Dorel Asia Recalls To Replace Cribs; Pose Strangulation and Suffocation Hazards
Products: Dorel Asia cribs (be sure to check the listing as there are a lot of cribs included).

Drop Side Cribs Recalled by Caramia Furniture Due to Fall and Entrapment Hazards
Products: Diana Crib

McNeil Consumer Healthcare Announces Voluntary Recall of Cerrtain Over-the-Counter Products
Products: Variety including (but not limited to) some Motrin, Tylenol, Bendadryl, Rolaids and more
Suggestion: Copy the chart into Excel, then find the lot numbers on your bottles and do a “fiind” to determine if your actual bottles were recalled.

The Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood (CCFC) has announced that anyone who has purchased a Baby Einstein DVD or VHS in the last five years can receive a full refund.  Why?

In 2006, the CCFC issued a complaint to the FTC about Disney’s practice of marketing Baby Einstein videos as “educational.”

You can read more about this story on the CCFC’s website or go onto Baby Einstein’s site to see their full refund and moneyback guarantee.  If you’re interested, check it out soon as the offer expires in March of 2010.

This one’s a biggie – lots of recalls on several Tylenol products (I know I found two of these in my medicine drawer just this morning). 

Tylenol reports on their website, “You may have heard that McNeil Consumer Healthcare (the makers of TYLENOL®) is voluntarily recalling certain lots of Children’s and Infants’ TYLENOL® liquid products that were manufactured between April, 2008 and June, 2008. All products manufactured met internal specifications. However, the company is implementing this recall because during this period, an unused portion of one inactive ingredient did not meet all quality standards. Therefore, as a precautionary measure, it was decided to recall all Children’s and Infants’ TYLENOL® liquid products listed below, which were made during this time. ”

View the full list of all Tylenol products being recalled.