| Product recalled | Date of recall | Number of units | Nature of hazard | Injuries reported prior to recall | Made in |
| Evenflo Majestic High Chairs | Dec. 18, 2008 | About 95,000 | Choking, fall | 94 | China |
| Evenflo Activity Centers | Feb. 17, 2009 | About 213,000 | Fall | 10 | Piqua |
| Evenflo Majestic High Chairs | April 2, 2009 | about 90,000 | Choking, fall | 10 | China |
| Evenflo Envision High Chairs | April 2, 2009 | about 643,000 | Choking, fall | 54 | China |
| Evenflo Switch-A-Roo Telephone Toys | July 16, 2009 | about 25,000 | Choking | 0 | China |
| Evenflo ExerSaucer 1-2-3 Tea for Me Activity Learning Centers | Dec. 8, 2009 | 79,660 | Choking | 0 | China |
| Evenflo Top-of-Stair Plus Wood Gates | March 25, 2010 | About 183,000 | Fall | 11 | Mexico |
| Evenflo Jenny Lind Cribs | June 24, 2010 | About 750,000 | Entrapment/strangulation/suffocation | 8 | Mexico, China |
| TOTAL | 2,078,660 | 187 |
MIAMISBURG — Since December 2008, Evenflo Co., Inc.’s eight recalls have outnumbered the tally of any other manufacturers regulated by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, a Dayton Daily News analysis found.
The recalls include more than 2 million cribs, high chairs, activity centers, wooden gates and telephone toys. The recalls were issued after 187 injuries had been reported, but no deaths.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has never levied a civil penalty against Evenflo but is in settlement negotiations with the company, according to documents the newspaper obtained.
Evenflo officials declined to be interviewed. But in a prepared statement the company said its most important goal is keeping children safe. “Although the word ‘recall’ can panic consumers, it is important to realize that not all recalls are a cause for panic and many should more appropriately be viewed as safety upgrade campaigns which are often initiated by responsible manufacturers,” the statement said.
Consumer advocates say the recalls raise concerns. “They may call it a safety upgrade, but what it means is there’s something wrong with the product that has caused injury or could potentially cause injury,” said Nancy Cowles, who has testified before Congress as executive director of Kids in Danger, a Chicago-based nonprofit. “If it wasn’t serious, it wouldn’t have been recalled.”
The recalls are troubling since they involve products that parents perceive as safe, she said.
“When you’re buying a product like a crib or a high chair,” she said, “you assume it will help your child stay safer.”
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