Toys R Us Holds Trade-In Event For Unsafe Kids’ Items

NEW YORK [NY1] — The toy retailer Toys R Us is urging customers to turn in potentially unsafe children’s products, as it launches its second “Great Trade-In” event.

From now through February 20, customers can bring in used cribs, strollers, high chairs and play pens among other baby items.

In exchange, they will get a 25 percent discount on a new purchase of any new baby product that qualifies.

Customers traded in tens of thousands of unsafe baby products during last year’s Great Trade-In event.

Used car seats were the item most-frequently traded in and the item most-frequently purchased with the discounts.

Eddie Bauer, Evenflo, Graco and Jeep are all brands that are participating in the event.

Meanwhile, those who have recently purchased a “Princess And The Frog” pendant from Wal-Mart are urged to to return it.
About 55,000 children’s pendants are part of voluntary recall by the Rhode Island-based jewelry company FAF Inc.

Federal consumer safety regulators say the jewelry contains high levels of the toxic metal cadmium, which can be harmful to brain development in children.

It comes weeks after an Associated Press investigation found high levels of the metal in pendants and other children’s jewelry imported from China.

This is the first recall of its kind in the United States.