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AAFES RECALL  NO. 04-001
RELEASE DATE:
15 January 2004
SUBJECT: HAZARDOUS RECALL - Graco Children’s Products Announce Recall of Bumble Bee Toys with Blue Antennae

DISTRIBUTION: World Wide

In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Graco Children’s Products Inc., of Exton, Pa., is voluntary recalling about 398,000 Bumble Bee toys with blue antennae sold with certain Graco high chairs and Graco mobile entertainers, and also sold separately as an accessory and replacement part. The blue antennae on the Bumble Bee toy can break, posing a choking hazard to young children.

Graco has received 26 reports of the antennae breaking off of the Bumble Bee toys, including five reports of children who started to choke on the broken antennae. One child’s throat was scratched when the child’s mother removed the broken antenna from the child’s mouth.

All Bumble Bee toys with blue antennae distributed by Graco are included in this recall. Specifically, Bumble Bee toys with blue antennae were distributed with Graco High Chair model numbers 3656CUB, 3658FKB, 3659KER, 3659NGS, 3660WNN and 35605 manufactured between July 22, 2002 and March 9, 2003, and Graco Tot Wheels Mobile Entertainer models 4522OTM, 4522TOTM, 4521ALP, 35628 and 4512FUN manufactured between November 8, 2001 and March 9, 2003. Bumble Bee toys with blue antennae were also distributed separately as an accessory and a replacement part with model number 548094S. Bumble Bee toys with yellow or black antennae are not affected.

Discount, department and juvenile product stores nationwide sold the Bumble Bee toys on high chairs, mobile entertainers and individually from October 2001 through March 2003. AAFES only sold the Neat Seat High Chair model 3659KER.

Consumers should discard immediately any Bumble Bee toys with blue antennae in their possession and contact Graco to receive a free replacement toy. Consumers can contact Graco at (800) 258-3213 anytime, or visit the firm’s Web site at www.gracobaby.com and click on “Customer and Product Support”, then “Contact Us” to send email with product model number and date code. Consumers may also write to the company at:

Graco Children's Products Inc.
Attn: Consumer Services
150 Oaklands Boulevard
Exton, PA 19341


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