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BY BOB HOLT

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Fisher-Price, a division of Mattel, announced four recalls Thursday — totaling more than 11 million toys and children's products sold since the 1990s — following a variety of injuries, mishaps and safety concerns.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday that two of the products being recalled involved injuries.

In the recall of about 7 million Fisher-Price Trikes and Tough Trikes toddler tricycles, the agency is aware of 10 reports of children being hurt. Six of them required medical attention. The trikes — some of which feature popular characters like Dora the Explorer and Barbie — have a protruding plastic ignition key near the seat that children can strike, sit on or fall on, leading to injuries that the commission said can include genital bleeding.

CBSPhilly reports that almost one million Healthy Care, Easy Clean, and Close to Me High Chairs are being recalled. There have been 14 reports of problems with the high chairs, with seven children requiring stitches and one being treated for a tooth injury. Children can fall on or against pegs on the rear legs of the high chair that are used for tray storage.

Also, more than 2.8 million Baby Playzone Crawl & Cruise Playground toys, Baby Playzone Crawl & Slide Arcade toys, Baby Gymtastics Play Wall toys, Ocean Wonders Kick & Crawl Aquarium toys, 1-2-3 Tetherball toys and Bat & Score Goal toys. The valve of the inflatable ball on the toys can come off and pose a choking hazard to children, said CPSC. The agency said there were more than 50 reports of the valves coming off the balls.

Finally, 100,000 Little People Wheelies Stand ‘n Play Rampway toys are being recalled. This is a toy that lets children push small cars along a track of ramps. There have been two reports of wheels detaching from the cars, posing a choking hazard.

About 400,000 of the recalled items were sold in Canada.

According to NorthJersey.com, CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum said manufacturers need to do more to build safety into their products before they reach store shelves. But she also offered praise for Fisher-Price for "taking the right steps by agreeing to these recalls and offering consumers free repairs or replacement."

Walletpop.com reports the CPSC's spokesman told Consumer Ally that the group of recalls was announced together intentionally. Scott Wolfson said the CPSC worked with Fisher-Price to make a group announcement so that parents would hear the news one time and be able to visit the website one time to respond to all of these recalls.

Last year, Fisher-Price agreed to pay a $2.3 million penalty for violating the federal government's ban on lead paint, at the time the largest ever penalty from the CPSC involving a product it regulates. Two years earlier, the company paid nearly $1 million for failing to report more than 30 incidents involving one of its Little People toys.

Fisher-Price says they want to reach out to parents to help them determine whether they have a recalled product and how to get a replacement part or repair kit. Information is available at this website — www.service.mattel.com/us/recall.asp — along with contact information.

FISHER-PRICE RECALLED TOYS

Trikes

72633 Hot Wheels Trike

72639 Barbie^TM Butterfly Trike

72642 Lil' Kawasaki® Trike

72643 Tough Trike

72644 Tough Trike

72792 Kawasaki Trike

B8775 Kawasaki® Ninja® Tough Trike

B8776 Barbie^TM Tough Trike

K6672 Nick Jr./Dora the Explorer Tough Trike

K6673 Go, Diego, Go! Tough Trike

M5727 Barbie^TM Tough Trike Princess Ride-On

N6021 Kawasaki Tough Trike

T6209 Thomas & Friends^TM Tough Trike

V4270 Go, Diego, Go!^TM Kid-Tough^TM Trike

Rampway

T4261 Little People® Wheelies^TM Stand 'n Play^TM Rampway

V6378 Little People® Wheelies^TM Stand 'n Play^TM Rampway Gift Set

Infant toys with inflatable balls

73408 Baby Playzone^TM Crawl & Cruise Playground^TM

B2408 Baby Playzone^TM Crawl & Slide Arcade^TM

C3068 Ocean Wonders^TM Kick & Crawl^TM Aquarium

H5704 Baby Gymtastics^TM Play Wall

H8094 Ocean Wonders^TM Kick & Crawl^TM Aquarium

J0327 1-2-3 Tetherball

K0476 Bat & Score Goal^TM

High Chairs

79638 Healthy Care^TM High Chair

79639 Healthy Care^TM High Chair

79640 Healthy Care^TM High Chair

79641 Healthy Care^TM High Chair

B0326 Deluxe Healthy Care^TM High Chair

B2105 Deluxe Healthy Care^TM High Chair

B2875 Healthy Care^TM High Chair

C4630 Healthy Care^TM High Chair

C4632 Link-a-doos^TM Deluxe Plus Healthy Care^TM High Chair

C5936 Healthy Care^TM High Chair

G4406 Healthy Care^TM High Chair

G8659 Aquarium Healthy Care High Chair^TM

H0796 Deluxe Healthy Care^TM High Chair

H1152 Healthy Care^TM High Chair

H4864 Aquarium Healthy Care^TM High Chair

H7241 Healthy Care^TM High Chair

H8906 Close to Me^TM High Chair

H9178 Easy Clean^TM High Chair

J4011 Easy Clean^TM High Chair

J6292 Easy Clean^TM High Chair

J8229 Easy Clean^TM High Chair

K2927 Rainforest^TM Healthy Care^TM High Chair

L1912 Healthy Care^TM High Chair