Ikea Agrees To Recall 169,000 High Chairs Over Falling Hazard
Ikea’s North American business agreed to voluntarily recall about 169,000 high chairs in the U.S. and Canada due to a falling hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada said.
The plastic “Antilop” high chair was sold in red, blue or white and has detachable silver-colored metal legs. The recalled product, which was sold exclusively at Ikea stores for $20 each from August 2006 to January 2010, has a restraint buckle that can open unexpectedly, posing a fall hazard for a child.
Ikea has received eight reports worldwide of restraint buckle issues with the chair,sacoche louis vuitton including three reports of children who received minor injuries after falling.
The agencies asked consumers to stop using the chair immediately and contact Ikea for a free replacement seat restraint.
About 133,000 of the chairs were recalled in the U.S. and 36,000 in Canada.
Ikea, a privately held company that makes and sells low-cost home furnishings and accessories, also agreed in November to recall 2,200 wardrobe mirror doors in the U.S. and Canada, due to a laceration hazard.
The Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy commander, Adm. Fadavi, is a veteran of the so-called tanker wars that took place as part of the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s. As the two warring countries targeted one another’s vessels, U.S. warships tried to ensure the free flow of commercial traffic. After a U.S. vessel was damaged by an Iranian mine, American forces sank five Iranian ships.
Tension this time could turn violent in any of several ways, experts say.
Iranian officials have proposed legislation barring foreign warships from sailing through the strait without permission. The U.S. Navy routinely challenges such attempts to curtail freedom of navigation, even those made by allies, by steaming warships through international waters, dozens of times each year.
U.S. officials said this week that they consider the Strait of Hormuz international waters, and will continue normal deployment of U.S. warships.
Iran also could use its own boats and planes to try to harass oil tankers passing through the strait, much as it did during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.
Finally, Iran could try to close the Strait of Hormuz entirely. The surest way to do that would be to mine the two-mile-wide shipping channels through which tanker traffic passes, though experts said that would be very difficult given the international surveillance of its naval activities.
If Iran could lay the mines, it would force the U.S., U.K. and allies to laboriously clear the strait. Doing so first would require destroying Iran’s antiship missiles, its small attack craft, and finally using minesweepers to clear the waterway.
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