EU alert · Safety Gate Serious risk Childcare articles and children's equipment
Children's travel cot CARELLO — risk: strangulation, suffocation
Published in the Safety Gate weekly report: · Ref. A12/0315/16
Summary
null The plastic mattress base can easily be lifted: a child could be trapped underneath and suffocate. There are protruding parts to which garments of children could get hanged, causing strangulation.In addition, the presence of long cords and strings may also cause strangulation. Also, the defective locking mechanism may cause the cot to fold inadvertently, causing injuries to the child and the gap between the…
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Product
Children's travel cot — CARELLO
- Brand
- CARELLO
- Name / model
- Play2
- Batch number(s)
- 0298254000031
- Category
- Childcare articles and children's equipment
- Children's blue and green travel cot with two wheels, a changing table and a mosquito net. The side of the cot is decorated with two carriages with animals and the inscription “My 1st Ride”. Small toys are hanging from a semicircular bar on the top of the cot. The product is packed in a brown cardbo
What is the risk?
- null The plastic mattress base can easily be lifted: a child could be trapped underneath and suffocate. There are protruding parts to which garments of children could get hanged, causing strangulation.In addition, the presence of long cords and strings may also cause strangulation. Also, the defective locking mechanism may cause the cot to fold inadvertently, causing injuries to the child and the gap between the side bars and the changing unit is too large, which may cause entrapment of fingers between the unit and the side of the cot. The product does not comply with the relevant European standard EN 716.
Measures taken
- Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): DistributorCategory of measure(s): Withdrawal of the product from the market
- Date of entry into force: 19/11/2015
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Source: Safety Gate — European Commission
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