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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Mobile Recall Hotline: (877) 810-4264
October 27, 2000
CPSC Contact: Nychelle Fleming
Release # 01-021
(301) 504-7063
CPSC, The Betesh Group Announce Recall of "John Lennon" Crib Mobiles
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission (CPSC), The Betesh Group, of New York, N.Y., is voluntarily recalling
about 47,000 "John Lennon" crib mobiles. The screws that connect the mobile's
arm assembly and crib clamp can become loose if overtightened. The arms can
detach and fall into the crib, injuring the baby inside.
CPSC and The Betesh Group has received seven reports of bumps and scratches to
babies after the mobiles attached to their cribs fell on them.
John Lennon Musical Mobiles hang from white wooden dowels that attach to cribs
with white clamps. "John LennonTM" and "MADE IN CHINA" is written on the wind-up
music box that turns the mobile. The music box plays the song, "Imagine." The
mobile has colorful wooden cut-outs of a rhinoceros, two elephants, a giraffe
and a bird hanging from yellow ribbons. Below each animal is a round disk with a
drawing of the animal it hangs from on the bottom.
Department and specialty stores sold these mobiles from June 1999 through August
2000 for about $39.
Consumers should stop using these mobiles immediately, and call The Betesh Group
to receive a free replacement plastic mobile with stuffed animals. For more
information, call The Betesh Group at (877) 810-4264 anytime, or write to: The
Betesh Group, One East 33rd Street, New York, NY 10016.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission protects the public from
unreasonable risks of injury or death from 15,000 types of consumer
products under the agency's jurisdiction. To report a dangerous product
or a product-related injury, call CPSC's hotline at (800) 638-2772 or
CPSC's teletypewriter at (800) 638-8270, or visit CPSC's web site at
http://www.cpsc.gov/talk.html. For information on CPSC's fax-on-demand
service, call the above numbers or visit the web site at
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/103.html. To order a press release through
fax-on-demand, call (301) 504-0051 from the handset of your fax machine
and enter the release number. Consumers can obtain this release and
recall information at CPSC's web site at http://www.cpsc.gov.
