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CPSC recalls involving baby rattles, rattle sets, and rattle toys.
88 official CPSC notices published 1982–2026, covering at least 3.5 million units.
Type the model number from your baby rattle's label. Every model number named in a baby rattle recall is listed below, grouped by notice.
17 model numbers
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Habermaass Corporation, Inc. dba HABA
The glued knot on the elastic cord can become untied on the recalled product, allowing young children access to the small wooden and plastic pieces, posing a risk of serious injury or death from choking and ingestion hazards.
Due to its size and shape, the wooden egg-shaped rattle in the recalled learning sets can get lodged in a child's throat, posing a choking hazard. This violates the federal regulations for infant rattles.
The wooden base can detach from the wooden rod and release the three plastic rings, posing a choking hazard to young children.
The bottom portion of the recalled baby rattles can detach, posing choking and/or ingestion hazards.
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PlayMonster Group
The rattle's legs can break off, posing a choking hazard to young children.
The feet on the Winnie the Pooh rattle can detach, posing a choking hazard to young children.
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The abacus ring on the horses back can dislodge and release the small beads, posing a choking hazard to small children.
Rattles sewn inside the socks and wristbands can detach, posing a choking hazard to young children.
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Small ornaments can detach from the socks, posing a choking hazard to young children.
Pieces of the rattle can detach, posing a choking hazard to infants.
The ears on the elephant rattles can break off, posing a choking hazard to young children.
The wooden rings on the hammer rattles can crack, posing a choking hazard to children.
Totals add up the figures the notices state, counting a reannounced or restated recall once; 47 of 88 notices add a unit count. A notice that gives no number adds nothing.
Counted across all 88 notices on file as of October 31, 2026. Each line says how many notices it rests on.
Amazon (9), Walmart (6), Target (4), HomeGoods (1), and Kmart (1) are the stores named most often in the 48 notices that say where baby rattles were sold. 19 of the 48 notices mention online sales.
The 48 notices that give a price range from $1 to $195. Half of them name a price of $8 or less.
By the 48 notices that give sale dates, half the products were on sale for 11 months or less; the longest for 11 years. Half the recalls came within 15 months of the first sale; the other half reached products that had been on sale longer.
A refund in 26 of the 28 notices that name a remedy, a replacement in 5. Some notices offer more than one.
Choking is named in 84 of the 88 notices (95%), against 14% of all CPSC notices on file. Then ingestion (3), laceration (2), fall (1), and suffocation (1).
36 of the 48 notices that describe incidents report at least one. 12 said none had been reported when the recall was announced.
4 of the 88 notices list model numbers. They also name serial numbers in 1, date codes or manufacture dates in 7, UPC codes in 5, lot or batch numbers in 5. A matching model number is a reason to open the notice, not the last word.
Where the notices say the numbers are: “on a label attached to the underside of the rattle”, “on a sewn-in label on the bee's head”, and “on the back of the label”.
China (48), Taiwan (9), Hong Kong (3), Japan (2) and Costa Rica (1), in the 68 notices that name a manufacturing country.
6 baby rattle notices in 2021–2025, down from 9 in 2016–2020. Across all CPSC notices on file, the count rose 16% over the same years.
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Every notice, newest first. Unit counts are the U.S. figures each notice states.
As of October 31, 2026, CPSC has published 88 recall notices for baby rattles since 1982, covering at least 3.5 million units. The most recent is “HABA USA Recalls Rainbow Rattle Grasping and Teething Toys Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Choking and Ingestion Hazards” (CPSC 26-719), announced August 27, 2026.
Yes. As of October 31, 2026, CPSC has published 1 recall notice for baby rattles in 2026, on August 27, 2026 (CPSC 26-719).
“Target Recalls Plush Boys Rattles Due to Choking Hazard” (CPSC 08-002), announced October 2, 2007: about 820,000 units.
Brands named most often: Manhattan Group (4), Toys"R"Us (4), Midwest-CBK (3), Target (3), BRIO (2), Crib Pals (2), Fiber-Craft Materials (2) and Infantino (2), plus 67 more brands. Brand-name products are often made by another firm, so one recall can span several brands.
Find the model number on the product's rating label, then type it into the model-number lookup on this page. A match means the number appears in an official CPSC notice; open that notice to confirm any date codes or serial ranges it lists. No match is not proof that a product is safe. 4 of the 88 notices here list model numbers. They also name serial numbers in 1, date codes or manufacture dates in 7 and lot or batch numbers in 5.
Follow the remedy in the official notice and contact the firm it names. Across baby rattle recalls, the remedies offered most often are refund (26) and replacement (5).
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