Every day parents and caregivers throughout Pennsylvania use items marketed specifically for use with children. Of those parents and caregivers, few if any routinely question whether the item they are using will inflict harm or cause an injury to the child they are taking care of. Most assume that if the product is available to be purchased, it must be safe. While it is likely that no company sets out to manufacture is product that could harm a baby or child, we all know it happens.

In our previous post we wrote about another recall of drop-side cribs. This week another item used when caring for children has been recalled. Close to half a million of the popular B.O.B. Trailers Inc. jogging strollers have been recalled throughout the U.S. and Canada due to a potential choking hazard. All strollers the company manufactured in a 12 year window from November 1998 to November 2010 are included.

According to a joint statement issued by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada, a logo patch placed on the canopy can be removed by young children who might then put it in their mouths. So far it appears that there have been two reported incidents of children choking and gagging. In both of these instances, the children were uninjured.

This is the second recall for this company this year. Earlier this year 357,000 of the company's strollers were recalled because of the drawstring on a canopy that was a potential strangulation hazard to children.

Source: Reuters, "Strollers recalled in U.S., Canada over choke hazard," Ian Simpson, Oct. 12, 2011