7.5 million Baby Shark tub toys are recalled after they lower or stabbed kids

About 7.5 million singing and swimming “Baby Shark” tub toys are being recalled after a number of lacerations and puncture wounds have been reported in kids enjoying with them.

Zuru, an El Segundo, California-based toymaker, stated it’s recalling each full-size and mini variations of its robotic child shark toys which have exhausting plastic high fins, which pose the damage dangers.

Twelve accidents have already been reported with Zuru’s full-sized Robo Alive Junior Baby Shark Sing & Swim Bath Toys — after kids sat or fell on the now-recalled merchandise. Nine of those instances required stitches or medical consideration, based on a Thursday launch from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

While accidents have solely been reported with these full-sized toys to date, Zuru can also be recalling Robo Alive Junior Mini Baby Shark Swimming Bath Toys “out of an abundance of caution.”

Consumers in possession of the recalled toys are instructed to cease utilizing them instantly and phone Zuru for a full refund. To get the refund, prospects are requested to chop off or bend the tail fin, write “recalled” and a license plate on the physique of the newborn shark and add a photograph on a website devoted to the recall.

The recalled merchandise might be recognized by mannequin numbers and date codes. Zuru’s Robo Alive Junior Baby Shark Sing & Swim Bath Toys and Robo Alive Junior Mini Baby Shark Swimming Bath Toys have been offered in-person and on-line at chains together with Walmart, Target, CVS, Walgreens and TJX Companies from May 2019 via March 2023.

In an organization announcement, Zuru famous that that the recall solely impacts the variations of the newborn shark toys with a tough plastic fin. The latest toys, which have a silicone fin, aren’t a part of the recall, Zuru stated.