FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 28, 1998
Release # 98-147
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Company Phone Number: (800) 251-2522
CPSC Consumer Hotline: (800) 638-2772
CPSC Media Contact: Nychelle Fleming, (301) 504-7063
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CPSC, Almar Sales Co. Announce Recall of Children's Jewelry Sets
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In cooperation with the U. S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission (CPSC), Almar Sales Co. Inc., of New York, N.Y., is voluntarily
recalling about 28,000 children's jewelry sets. The necklaces and bracelets involved in
this recall can break, releasing small plastic beads that pose potential choking and
aspiration hazards to young children.
CPSC and Almar Sales are not aware of any injuries involving these jewelry sets.
This recall is being conducted to prevent the possibility of injury.
The children's jewelry sets are sold under the Expressions brand name. The sets
contain a bracelet and a necklace made from colorful plastic beads strung on an elastic
cord. The jewelry sets subject to this recall come in the following five styles:
Style # | Beads |
NB104 | Round with hearts or round with hearts, flowers and cylinders |
NB113 | Round, with either apples, bananas, cherries, grapes or pineapples |
NB114 | Round with slippers |
NB118 | Round with bears |
NB136 | Round with a combination of hearts, stars, cylinders, and/or disks |
The style number is found on the cardboard hang tag, attached to the sets at the
time of purchase.
Toy and novelty stores nationwide sold the jewelry sets from January 1994
vthrough June 1998 for about $1.
Consumers should take the recalled jewelry away from children immediately, and
return them to the store where purchased or directly to Almar Sales Co., 17 West 37th
St., New York, NY 10018 for a refund. For more information, consumers should call
Almar Sales Co. Inc. at (800) 251-2522 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. EDT Monday
through Friday. Other Expressions brand jewelry sets or sets with clasps are not
involved in this recall.
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