Target Children's Toy Gardening Tools and Chairs recall: Violation of Lead Paint Standard
Target Recalls Children's Toy Gardening Tools and Chairs Due to Violation of Lead Paint Standard
Why was Target Children's Toy Gardening Tools and Chairs recalled?
The surface paint on the recalled gardening tools and chairs contains excessive levels of lead, violating the federal lead paint standard.
What should I do if I have this product?
Consumers should immediately take the products away from children and return the item to the nearest Target store for a full refund. Contact: For additional information, contact Target at (800) 440-0680 between 7 a.m. and 6 pm. CT Monday through Friday, or visit the firm's Web site at www.target.com
What to do with a recalled product: refunds, receipts, safe disposal and how to report a problem.
Is my product affected?
Compare the item in your hand with every identifier below from the official CPSC record. Only products that match the listed product and identifiers are part of this recall.
- Product
- Happy Giddy Gardening Tools and Children's Sunny Patch Chairs
- Company
- Starite International Ltd., of Taiwan, Target, of Minneapolis, Minn.
- Quantity
- About 350,000
- Sold at
- Target stores nationwide from August 2006 through August 2007 for between $3 and $10.
- Recall date
- September 26, 2007
- Incidents / injuries
- None reported.
- Agency
- CPSC
Product description
The recall includes the Happy Giddy Gardening Tools and the Sunny Patch Children's Chairs. Gardening tools: caterpillar trowel with an orange and multi-colored handle; kitty cat broom with pink flowers and green handle; pink and green cultivator with a solid green tool portion and pink flowers on the handle; orange and green wood handle hoe and rake with orange flowers; pink and green shovel and trowel with pink flowers; green, orange and light blue snail push broom; multi-colored trowel, hoe, rake with orange on the tool body; multi-colored shovel with solid red on the shovel and eyes on the top of the handle; red and blue owl shaped broom with bristles painted blue, with yellow and black large eyes on the face. Children's Chairs: multi-colored children's Sunny Patch chairs with a giraffe, monkey, and elephant on the back. The cloth seat and back are striped in orange, yellow, green and blue. The chameleon, butterfly and ladybug chair are not included in the recall.