Best Nutritionals Recalls Organic Wintergreen Essential Oil Due to Failure to Meet Child Resistant Packaging Requirements; Risk of Poisoning (Recall Alert)
Home product recall 22-745. Announced by CPSC on Apr 28, 2022.
- CPSC: stop using it
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The short answer
Announced by CPSC on Apr 28, 2022. Copied from CPSC on Oct 19, 2026.
- Stop using it what CPSC tells owners to do now (needs attention)
- Refund what’s offered
- About 2,800 units, as CPSC gives them
- None injuries, CPSC’s notice says
Every line below is in CPSC’s own words, with its source beside it.
What’s wrong with it?
The product contains the substance methyl salicylate which must be in child resistant packaging as required by the Poison Prevention Packaging Act (PPPA). The packaging of the products is not child resistant, posing a risk of poisoning if the contents are swallowed by young children.
CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.
What should you do?
Consumers should immediately stop using and store the product in a safe location out of reach and sight of children. Contact Best Nutritionals for information on how to properly dispose the product and receive a full refund. Best Nutritionals is contacting all known purchasers directly.
CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.
- What the company offers to fix a recalled product or vehicle: a repair, a replacement or a refund, as the recall notice says. For a vehicle, dealers make the safety repair free. Follow the notice’s own steps, or contact the company it names. Source: CPSC; NHTSA (49 U.S.C. 30120).: refund.
- How to reach the firm: Best Nutritionals toll-free at 877-659-6004 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or online at https://shopbestnaturals.com/pages/wintergreen-recall-alert or https://shopbestnaturals.com/ and click on “RECALL” for the more information.
Which ones are recalled?
This recall involves Best Naturals Organic Wintergreen Essential oil in dark amber glass bottles with a black continuous thread closure. The product was sold in 4 fl oz. “Organic Wintergreen Essential Oil” and the firm’s logo is printed on the green and orange label. The UPC 817716016719 is printed on the back side of the label.
About 2,800 units, as CPSC gives them.
Best Naturals Organic Wintergreen Essential Oil.
CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.
Numbers to check against yours
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UPC
817716016719
Copied exactly as CPSC lists them.
CPSC’s photos
CPSC shows 2 photos on its notice. Hearth Record doesn’t copy them; each opens on cpsc.gov.
Who made and sold it?
- Distributed by Best Nutritionals LLC, Piscataway, New Jersey.
- Online at Amazon.com and Walmart.com from October 2018 to February 2021 for about $15.
- Made in United States, as the notice gives it.
CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.
Was anyone hurt?
None reported
CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.
What the record doesn’t say
- The notice lists no model numbers in a field of their own; its description may give them.
- How many have been returned or fixed isn’t in the notice.
Hearth Record wrote these lines.
Sources
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Recalls API.
Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work). CPSC asks to be credited, and that no endorsement be implied.
Recalls of kids’ and home products are from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). CPSC does not endorse Hearth Record. Copied on Oct 19, 2026.