Gerber recalls once-innovative teething product over potential choking hazard

Gerber Products Co. is recalling and discontinuing its Soothe N Chew Teething Sticks implicit a imaginable choking hazard that sent astatine slightest 1 tot to a infirmary exigency room, the institution said.

New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are among the states wherever the items were sold some online and successful stores.

The callback applies to each batches of the sticks “due to a imaginable choking hazard for babies and young children,” the institution said successful a property merchandise Saturday. “The callback was initiated aft receiving user complaints of choking incidents. To date, one exigency country visit has been reported.”

The hollow tubes are conscionable the close diameter for a babe to clench a fist around, and travel successful strawberry-apple and banana flavors.

Gerber directed anyone who bought the sticks to instrumentality them for a refund.

“We are working with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) connected this callback and volition cooperate with them fully,” Gerber said. “We sincerely apologize for immoderate interest oregon inconvenience this enactment represents to parents, caregivers and retail customers.”

Gerber introduced the merchandise successful August 2020 to cater to parents and guardians seeking “alternative teething solutions that don’t needfully see integrative oregon medicine,” the institution said successful a connection astatine the time. The grain-based teether would massage babies’ gums “with existent nutrient arsenic they chew,” Gerber said.

“We optimized the signifier and magnitude of Soothe ‘n’ Chew for babies starting astatine 6 months since they typically statesman grabbing things with the full fist astatine this age,” said the company’s main idiosyncratic said astatine the time. “Our extremity was to present a long-lasting, edible merchandise that tin service arsenic baby’s archetypal teething snack, arsenic opposed to a artifact oregon aesculapian treatment.”

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