Product Safety Report: Activity Busy Board (2111-0528)

Product Safety Report for activity busy board presenting a serious risk of choking and asphyxiation due to access to small parts and insufficiently thick packaging.

Summary

Product: Activity Busy Board

Hazard: The product presents a serious risk of choking as when tested according to the impact test, one of the buttons attached to the shirt broke, and detached at a force.The buttons fit entirely within the small parts cylinder, posing a choking hazard to young children.

Corrective action: Destruction of the product.

Product information

Type Toys
Barcode X001BWIJGB
Country of Origin China
Product description Children’s activity fold out board
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Hazard

The product presents a serious risk of choking as when tested according to the impact test, one of the buttons attached to the shirt broke, and detached at a force of 46 N, less than the specified minimum of 90N. The buttons fit entirely within the small parts cylinder, posing a choking hazard to young children.

The product’s flexible plastic bag used for packaging also has an area greater than 100mm x 100mm and the bag thickness measured as 0.023mm which is less than the minimum permissible limit of 0.038mm, posing a potential asphyxiation hazard to young children.

The product does not meet the requirements of the Toys (Safety) Regulations 2011.

Corrective action

Destruction of the product.

Additional information

PSD case number: 2111-0528

Notified by: Local Authority Trading Standards

Published 27 March 2022