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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is recalling nearly 2 million Summer Infant Baby Bathers because of falling and head injury risks. When the bather is lifted or carried with a baby in it, its folding wire frame can suddenly become unfastened from the side hinge, dropping the baby out of the bather. CPSC has received reports of babies who suffered head injury from falling out of these bathers.

The bathers were sold in stores nationwide from September 2004 through November 2011. If you have any of the recalled Summer Infant Baby Bathers, CPSC urges that you stop using the bathers immediately and contact Summer Infant for a free repair kit at (800) 426-8627 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. EST Monday through Friday or visit summerinfant.com/batherrepairkit. Do not return baby bathers to stores as the retailers will not have the repair kit.

The repair kit includes a locking strap and instructions. However, even with the new locking strap, never lift or carry the baby bather with a baby in it. To learn more about this recall, please visit cpsc.gov. Learn more about bath tubs and other bath products.

If you’ve been to a baby shower recently or visited a baby registry list, then you’ve probably seen the Bumbo infant seat. These baby seats, made of molded foam, are hugely popular in families with infants. But if you’re one of the millions of people who have a Bumbo, beware.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Bumbo International are recalling over 4 million Bumbo infant seats because several babies have fallen or gotten themselves out of their seats. This happened when the Bumbo was placed either on a raised surface or used on the floor. The CPSC has gotten reports of babies who suffered skull fractures, bumps, bruising and other injuries.

If you have a Bumbo seat for your baby, the CPSC urges you to stop using the seat right away until you get and install a free repair kit, which includes a safety belt. To order the repair kit, visit recall.bumbousa.com or call (866) 898-4999 between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m EST Monday through Thursday, and between 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. EST on Friday.

The Bumbo seats were sold in stores nationwide and online, including Sears, Target, Toys R Us (including Babies R Us), USA Babies, Walmart, and other toy and children’s stores from August 2003 through August 2012.

To learn more about this and other recalls, visit cpsc.gov. Visit marchofdimes.com for more information about baby gear.

Sandoz is recalling 10 lots of Introvale® birth control pills due to a packaging error. The mistake has to do with how each pill is assigned to each day and week of the month. If you use Introvale® as your birth control pill, the recalled pills don’t put your health at risk. However, it can leave you without enough contraception and put you at risk for an unplanned pregnancy.

Each 3 month pack of Introvale® has 12 rows of peach colored pills and 1 last row of white (placebo) pills. The recalled lots mistakenly have the white placebo row in another row, not the final 13th row as it should be in.

If you find the white placebo row in any position other than the 13th row, start using another kind of non-hormonal contraception as a backup, such as condoms. Also, talk to your health provider and contact Sandoz to report the finding at 800-525-2492 or qa.druginfo@sandoz.com. To learn more about the recall, visit the FDA website.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and five retailers are announcing a voluntary recall to provide refunds to consumers who own crib tents and play yard tents made by Tots in Mind, Inc. The crib tents and play yard tents can present an entrapment and strangulation hazard to infants and toddlers if the dome portion inverts inside the crib or play yard, or if the product becomes partially detached from the crib or play yard.

CPSC staff urges parents and caregivers to stop using these crib tents and play yard tents immediately. Do not attempt to repair these products. CPSC is aware of 27 tent failures including one fatality and one serious injury that occurred between January 1997 and April 2012 from crib tents and play yard tents made by Tots in Mind, Inc.

Since Tots in Mind, Inc. is no longer in business, retailers who sold these products have stepped up to offer refunds or store credit to consumers. The recalled products were sold at numerous retail stores including Bed Bath & Beyond/Buy Buy Baby, Burlington Coat Factory, Toys R Us/Babies R Us, Walmart and online on websites including Amazon.com, for between $60 and $85.

Consumers should contact the store where the product was purchased to receive either a refund or store credit, depending on the retailer. Click on this link for more contact information.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is recalling nearly 1 million Safety 1st Push ‘N Snap Cabinet Locks with model numbers 48391 and 48442. CPSC found that young children can unlock the cabinet locks, giving children access to unsafe items moms and dads keep in cabinets. This can put your child at risk of getting hurt from these unsafe items.

The child safety locks were sold at Bed Bath & Beyond and other retail stores nationwide as well as at Amazon.com from January 2004 through February 2012 for between $2 and $4.

If you have any of the recalled child safety locks, CPSC urges you to remove the locks from the cabinets right away and store dangerous items out of reach of children. For a free replacement Push ‘N Snap lock, contact Dorel Juvenile Group (DJG), Inc. (the company that imports these child safety locks) at (866) 762-3212 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. EST Monday through Friday or visit the firm’s website at www.djgusa.com.

For more information on the child safety lock recall, please visit the CPSC website. Learn more about keeping your baby’s environment safe.

Infant’s grape flavored liquid Tylenol is being recalled because of a problem with the dosing tool. Infants’ Tylenol Oral Suspension Grape uses a dosing syringe, a tube with a nozzle used to draw in and release fluid. The dosing syringe is placed into a protective cover, called a flow restrictor, that sits at the top of the bottle and helps to measure the right amount of medicine to give. Some parents reported problems with using the dosing syringe, in which the protective cover at the top of the bottle was pushed into the bottle when inserting the syringe.

Over half a million bottles of this grape flavored infant Tylenol were distributed nationwide. If you have this Tylenol and are having problems using the dosing syringe, stop using the product and contact Tylenol at www.tylenol.com or McNeil Consumer Healthcare (makers of Tylenol) at (888) 222-6036 for a refund.

To learn more about the recall, visit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Watch this video to learn more about the dosing syringe. Learn more about your baby’s health.

The birth control  Lo/Ovral®-28 as well as its generic version, Norgestrel and Ethinyl Estradiol, are being recalled  because of a packaging error.

Birth control pills are taken each day in the order they appear in the package. However, the recalled birth control pills may not be in the right order. While the packaging mistake doesn’t harm women’s health, it can leave women without enough contraception and put them at risk for an unplanned pregnancy.

If you’re taking any of the recalled birth control pills, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends that you start using a barrier method, such as condoms, for birth control as a backup. FDA also says to talk to your health provider and return the recalled birth control to your pharmacy.

For more information about the recall, visit the FDA website. Learn more about birth control.

Smucker’s® is recalling its Natural Peanut Butter Chunky because it may have Salmonella, bacteria that cause salmonellosis infection. People with salmonellosis can get sick and may have diarrhea, fever, vomiting and abdominal cramps 12 to 72 hours after infection.

The recall is for Smucker’s® Natural Peanut Butter Chunky with the following details:

• Purchased between November 8 - 17, 2011
• UPC 5150001701 (located on the side of the jar’s label below the bar code)
• Production Codes 1307004 and 1308004
• Best-If-Used-By dates August 3, 2012 and August 4, 2012
• Chunky product only (not creamy)

In most healthy adults, symptoms can last for days. But pregnant women, babies and others with weakened immune systems can sometimes become seriously ill from Salmonella infection.  Occasionally, a pregnant woman can pass a Salmonella infection on to her baby. After birth, her baby can get diarrhea, fever and, less frequently, meningitis after birth. Meningitis is an infection of the membranes surrounding the brain.

Visit the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) website for more information on the peanut butter recall.

You may have heard recent news about cantaloupes being recalled because they may be linked to listeriosis, a kind of food poisoning. The cantaloupes are Rocky Ford cantaloupes and were shipped nationwide by Jensen Farms.

Listeriosis is a serious infection caused by bacteria called listeria. Listeriosis most often happens from being in contact with foods that have listeria. While anyone can get listeriosis, pregnant women are about 20 times more likely than other healthy adults to get listeriosis. In fact, about 1 in 6 cases of listeriosis happens during pregnancy.

Listeriosis is very harmful to women during pregnancy. A pregnant woman who gets listeriosis is at risk for miscarriage, premature birth and stillbirth. Listeriosis is also very harmful, even deadly, to newborn babies. Older adults and people with weakened immune systems are at increased risk of listeriosis, too.
 
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advises everyone not to eat Rocky Ford cantaloupes shipped by Jensen Farms. While most grocery stores have removed the cantaloupes from their shelves, some people may still have them in their homes. At least 18 states have reported cases of listeriosis from cantaloupes, including California, Montana, Kansas, Florida and Maryland.

To learn more about the recalled cantaloupes, visit the CDC website.

Qualitest pharmaceuticals is recalling several of its oral contraceptive products (birth control pills) because of a packaging error. The mistake has to do with how each pill is assigned to each day of the month. While the error doesn’t put women’s health at risk, it can leave women without enough contraception and put them at risk for an unintended pregnancy.

The birth control pill recall includes:
• Cyclafem™ 7/7/7
• Cyclafem™ 1/35
• Emoquette™
• Gildess® FE 1.5/30
• Gildess® FE 1/20
• Orsythia™
• Previfem ®
• Tri-Previfem®

If you have any of the recalled birth control pills, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends that you start using another form of non-hormonal birth control as a backup, such as condoms, and talk to your health provider or pharmacist.

For more information about the recall, visit the FDA website. Learn more about contraceptives.