Q2 2025 Consumer Product Recalls Analysis
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Recall Analysis
A total of 91 consumer products recall notices were issued by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) from April-June, 2025. Notably, 27 recalls from Health Canada were done jointly with the CPSC.
Durable nursery products accounted for 15 notices, for the risk of drowning, choking and/or ingestion, suffocation, entrapment, injury, crash and fall. Appliances accounted for 15 notices, due to risk of fire and/or burn, poisoning, microbial, electrocution, laceration and amputation. Furniture accounted for 10 notices. Toys and games accounted for 11 notices, due to fire and burn, as well as choking and/or ingestion.
Notably, there was 1 recall for children’s sleepwear which was recalled due to the elastic on the pajama ankles being too tight and restrictive for blood circulation, thereby posing injury hazard.
Highlighted below are some of the recalls relevant to Softlines and Hardlines products:
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Q2 2025 – CPSC |
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Product |
Reason(s) |
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Children’s Sleepwear |
· The recalled pajamas/nightgowns violate the flammability regulations for children’s sleepwear, posing a risk of burn injuries to children. · The elastic on the pajamas’ ankles can be too tight and restrict blood circulation, posing an injury hazard. |
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Toys and Games |
· The toy can break into small pieces, blocking the child’s airway, posing a risk of choking, and serious injury or death to children. · The controller and improper wiring on the ride-on truck can overheat, causing fire and burn hazards. · The magnet fidget toy and puzzle set pose an ingestion hazard. When high-powered magnets are swallowed, the ingested magnets can attract each other, or another metal object, and become lodged in the digestive system. This can result in perforations, twisting and/or blockage of the intestines, infection, blood poisoning and death. |
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Window Coverings |
The recalled window shades have long operating cords that can cause death or serious injury to children, due to strangulation and entanglement hazards. The window shades are in violation of the federal regulations for window coverings and present a substantial product hazard. The window shades also violate federal regulations for labeling of window coverings. |
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Candles and accessories |
· The candle’s glass container can crack or break while the candle is burning, posing a laceration and fire hazard. |
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Durable Nursery Products |
· The bath seats pose a tip over hazard, allowing the baby to slip out of the seat, posing a risk of serious injury or death to babies from drowning. · The highchairs pose the risk of entrapment and fall. · Baby walkers pose a risk of fall, injury and death. They contain excess levels of lead, which can cause adverse health effects when ingested. · The swings and loungers pose a suffocation hazard and a risk of serious injury or death to babies, because they were marketed for infant sleep and have an incline angle greater than 10 degrees, in violation of the Federal Safety Standard for Infant Sleep Products. |
Health Canada Recalls Analysis
Health Canada reported a total of 66 consumer product recall notices issued in Q2 (April-June, 2025).
An analysis of the product categories shows that there were 9 recalls made in the category of toys and games, on account of choking and/or ingestion, chemical and strangulation hazards. The category of electrical and electronics had 11 recalls made, on account of fire and/or burn, electrocution, serious illness, injury and death. Similarly, there were 10 recalls made in the category of appliances, on account of fire and/or burn, microbial, electrocution, poisoning, laceration and amputation.
Based on hazard categorization, there were 13 recalls made in the category of fire and/or burn, and 10 recalls made in the category of choking and/or ingestion. Several chemicals were recalled for not meeting the labeling requirements of the Consumer Chemical and Containers Regulation, 2001, under the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act.
Highlighted below are some recalls relevant to Hardlines and Softlines products:
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Q2 2025 – Health Canada |
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Product |
Reason(s) |
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Footwear |
· It is possible that the hook of one boot can catch on the lace of the other boot, posing a potential fall hazard. |
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Jewelry |
· The recalled jewelry contains lead in excess of allowable limits. Under the Children's Jewelry Regulations of the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act, it is illegal to import, advertise or sell jewelry items that appeal primarily to children under 15 years of age and contain more than 90 mg/kg total lead. A range of serious health effects have been associated with exposure to lead and cadmium, including anemia, vomiting, diarrhea, serious brain injury, convulsions, coma, as well as effects related to the liver, kidneys, heart and immune system. In extreme cases, there have been deaths. |
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Children’s Sleepwear |
· These products do not meet the flammability requirements for children’s sleepwear of the Children’s Sleepwear Regulations. Loose-fitting children’s sleepwear can contact ignition sources such as stove elements, candles, and matches more readily than tight-fitting sleepwear, and once ignited will burn rapidly, potentially resulting in severe burns to large areas of the child’s body. |
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Camping Accessories |
· The backrest fold mechanism can pinch consumers’ fingers, posing laceration and amputation hazards. |
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Sports & Recreation |
· The helmet may fail to protect the person during fall or crash, posing a head injury. · The harnesses concerned by this recall use certain buckles, positioned on the back, to close the harness. The risk can occur when one or both of buckles break and the harness no longer closes, which places the user at risk of exiting the harness completely, falling from height and sustaining serious injury or death. |
