Turkey Butt loves Strawberry Milk.  When she was little, she refused anything but breast milk.  I couldn’t get her to drink regular milk.  We tried everything.  Finally we got her to drink my favorite milk when I was a kid – Strawberry Milk.
Recently I found that there is a recall for the 21.8 oz containers of Nestle Quick Strawberry Powder for small fragments of aluminum.  The 2 product codes affected are “82255880″ and “82265880″.  Look on the bottom of the plastic containers to see if yours need to be thrown out.

 
I regret to inform you that last night, stores began pulling Aqua Dots from shelves after it was discovered that it contains a chemical that converts into the date rape drug if swallowed.
CPSC has received two reports over the past several days of children swallowing Aqua Dots. A 20-month-old child swallowed several dozen beads. He became dizzy and vomited several times before slipping into a comatose state for a period of time, was hospitalized, and has since fully recovered. A second child also vomited and slipped into a comatose state and was hospitalized for five days.
Aqua Dots are a Chinese …read more

Graco just released a recall for their Comfort Sport Car seat when in the rear facing position.  The lower anchoring strap was misrouted during assembly and can affect the performance of the car seat during a crash.  Here are the images to tell if your car seat is affected by the recall.  Take the time to look and see if your car seat is a part of the recall and keep your precious cargo safe.

I have a soap box to climb for just a second, so please indulge me. I have to say that there are justified recalls for things like lead and choking and then there is the bumbo recall. The recall states that there have been 28 reports of babies falling out of the seat from high places. Some due to the children being left unattended. Am I missing something dangerous here?

Just wanted to do a toy recall roundup around the net. Thought you might be interested.

Play Library has a good list for Fisher Price recalls
Blogging Stocks has barbie recall insight
All Toy Recall has a great site to check your toys against recalls
Baby Center has another great tool to check your toys against.
Georgian Injury Lawyer Blog ( very interesting) has the recall on necklaces
Slobokan, although not a toy recall, has the beef recall notice
Yumsugar has the Campbell’s recall
Thrifty Mommy told you about white chocolate recalls.

Unfortunately, I can’t bring you all the recalls as there are just too many. Try …read more

Once again, I am sorry to tell you that there was another toy recall announcement. This time it includes Baby Einstein Color Blocks and activity center, KB toy wooden blocks, and Target boy rattles. Take a look at your toy box again and start chunking those lead toys! It’s so sad that we have to be so vigilant with TOYS!

Hershey’s has recalled chocolate  for salmonella that was produced at their Smith Falls, Ontario factory from October 15th to November 10th. Chocolate products include

Hershey brand chocolate bars,
chocolate chips,
Oh Henry! bars,
Reese’s peanut butter cups and
Cherry Blossom sweets
White Chocolate

The white chocolate was just added this week. Good thing I don’t particularly care for chocolate.

There have been three new crib recalls lately. One was the kissing cousin to Turkey Butt’s crib. I got a little nervous at first until I realized that we had the Aspen 3-in-1 Crib with drawer and not the one they recalled. So here are the three cribs they recalled for different reasons. If you have one of these cribs, contact the manufacturer immediately for further instructions. Your kids are worth it and you spent hard earned money on the cribs. They should replace them for you.
Simplicity Cribs:

Nursery in a box
Aspen 3-in-1
Aspen 4-in-1
Crib N …read more

I received an email from Toys-R-Us that wanted to reassure me about the toys at Toys-R-Us and the safety recalls that have occured. I thought you would like to read it as I thought it sounded very sincere.

September 12, 2007Dear Valued Guest,
As a father of five children, I understand the concerns parents have about product safety. And, as the CEO of the world’s largest toy and baby products retailer, I can assure you that nothing is more important to our company than the safety of children. It is at the heart of who we are as …read more

I am all for recycling and saving money but this whole story about China selling dirty chop sticks is going too far!  How disgusting?!?!?!?!  Evidently, the guy sold about half a million dirty, unsanitized chopsticks.  He made quite a bit of money but how does this happen in today’s society?  Aren’t there regualtions?  I find the article fascinating as China “lacks the manpower to enforce food and drug safety regulations at home or for export. Imports are generally carefully scrutinized.”  Seems to me that they can take care of their own but just want to sell us anything we are …read more