Product Safety

I would like a guarantee that every single product I’ve ever purchased in the last 45 years is 100% safe. If not, please recall the product and give me a full refund.

Honestly, is this how people think?

I just received a very nice email from Amazon. Apparently some product that I purchased in the past 10 years has a 0.0001% chance of causing injury to my child. So there’s a product recall and I can get a free fix.

I’m not making this up. My math might be off, but even if it is, it’s immaterial.

We bought this product for Danielle years ago and we’ve used it for Victoria as well. It’s excellent. It’s from Step2, who I would like to say generally makes very fine kids products. My only complaint would be that if you leave it outside, the rain will fill it up internally and it’s hard to get the water out.

The recall notice is here.

Note the statistics. The product has been sold about 2.5 million times. There have been 28 reports of issues. 2 of those reports required a trip to the doctor.

Holy crap, that should prompt a celebration, not a recall.

Honestly, I believe in meaningful government regulation to promote product safety. Especially when kids are involved. But c’mon, if this is the standard no company will ever sell anything…