“Flashing eye glasses” Light up Glasses toys

The reports, as CPSC published them

1. No one hurt

   Made Nov 26, 2012 · , sent to the company Dec 20, 2012 · , published by CPSC Jan 8, 2013

   The product, in the report: Plastic toy glasses that light up. http://mtcmans.com/Product/favors/lightup.html

   Item description :Light Up Play Glasses with 3 tiny eraser-sized button batteries PF-6240 Mfg. = MTC Trading Co. Inc Brisbane, CA 94005 Website: mtcmans.com Mfg. Date: 2010 Batch # IS-M11/019 Link to product: http://mtcmans.com/Product/favors/lightup.html

   My mom purchased some toy, light up glasses for the children (all over 3 years old) at Thanksgiving. They were a “dollar store” type item that would light up the way a lot of children’s athletic shoes do. However, they run on three tiny batteries that are even smaller than the button batteries that children can accidentally ingest and die from! I went into the kitchen after the kids had been playing with the glasses. I saw a very tiny silver battery about the size of a pencil eraser on the floor. Then I looked at the glasses my 8 year old son had been playing with and found a hole in the area where the batteries are supposed to be. Immediately, the entire family was down on their hands and knees looking for more of them because we also had an infant and a tiny toddler boy in the house who most certainly have swallowed one of those dangerous batteries if they found it! We found the other two, thank goodness! However, my husband and my brother-in-law who are both engineers looked at the other glasses the kids had and when my husband tried to access the batteries, the clip just popped out and the batteries went flying out all over the place. Once again, sending everyone to the ground to find the tiny, dangerous batteries! Just one tiny bump to the battery door from a child can send these things flying out! What is worse is that they are not encapsulated permanently the way that batteries in kids shoes are OR the way that other, safer toys with these types of button batteries have a screw in the back to keep them from accidentally being accessed by a child and posing a serious threat. These toys are too dangerous as is and need to be taken off the market ASAP! All of these light up toys they make should be pulled off of the market until they can either permanently seal the battery area and make them a non-serviceable item like the light-up shoes OR install screws to prevent the battery door from just popping open. This is not a case where the item is being misused. Yes, it says that it is for children over 3 but any kid can pop the batteries out and those batteries can get lost, only to be found later by a tiny child who may eat one.

   Model

   PF-6240

   Serial number

   Batch IS-M11/019

   Bought from

   (I will check with my mom), Michigan

   Bought

   Nov 21, 2012, about then

   Where

   Farmington Hills, Michigan: Home/Apartment/Condominium

   Who was involved

   Age 1, Male

   The reporter’s relation to them

   Other Relative

   As this report names them

   Brand “Flashing eye glasses” Light up Glasses, made or sold by MTC TRADING COMPANY, INC

   How badly, in CPSC’s words

   Incident, No Injury

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