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CPSC #98090Baby & nursery

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Clear Choice · Recalled

Baby Monitors Recalled by Gerry Baby Products

Fire & burns

Fire & Fire-Related Burn

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Affected

Baby Monitors Recalled by Gerry Baby Products NEWS from CPSC U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Office of Information and Public Affairs Washington, DC 20207 Note: Telephone Number & Responding Company Change. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Originally issued April 8, 1998, Revised January 13, 2003 Release # 98-090 Company Phone Number: (800) 233-5921 CPSC Consumer Hotline: (800) 638-2772 CPSC Media Contact: Ken Giles, (301) 504-7052 CPSC, Gerry Baby Products Announce Recall to Repair Baby Monitors WASHINGTON, D.C. - In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Gerry Baby Products of Denver, Colo., recalled about 86,000 rechargeable baby monitors sold under the Clear Choice brand name. When an electrical short occurs, the rechargeable battery can cause the monitor's "parent" unit to smoke and flame. Gerry has received one report of flames and four reports of smoke coming from the monitor's parent unit. No injuries or property damage have been reported. The Gerry Clear Choice rechargeable baby monitor being recalled is Model 618. The model number is found on a silver plate on the front of the monitor's AC adapter. The monitor consists of a "baby" unit, a parent unit, a recharging base for the parent unit and AC adapters. All of the units are white with a light blue accent color. Because it houses the battery, only the parent unit presents the hazard. Mass merchandise and baby stores throughout the United States sold the baby monitors from April 1996 to March 1998 for about $40. Consumers should disconnect and throw away the blue battery pack from the parent unit immediately. Consumers should contact Evenflo's Parent Link Consumer Resource Center at (800) 233-5921 for assistance (Gerry Baby Products is out of business, but the Evenflo Company has now taken over in responding to this recall). This recall is not related to the October 1996 recall of 990,000 Gerry model 602 baby monitors. Consumers with questions about the model 602 monitor can call Evenflo's Parent Link Consumer Resource Center at (800) 233-5921.

The file

Sold at
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Product type
Baby Monitors
Made in
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Recalled by
Clear Choice, Gerry

Incident log

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What the notice says to do

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