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Playskool recalls toy
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September 14, 2000: 3:46 p.m. ET
Company recalls 550,000 Klackeroo toys after suspecting a choking hazard
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NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Playskool Inc. on Thursday is recalling about 550,000 Klackeroo toys because the toy's brightly colored end knobs can detach, posing a choking hazard to infants and young children.
Playskool, which has also offered to replace the recalled toys, has received 10 reports of the toy's knobs becoming loose. The company also received four reports of a small part from the toy being found in the mouths of infants and young children. There have been no reported injuries.
Playskool's Klackeroo is a brightly colored toy with orange plastic rods and small shapes that move through a center purple ball. Solid-colored knobs with animal faces or the sun and moon imprinted on them cap both ends of each orange rod.
 When shaken, the rods move through the ball and the geometric shapes slide along each rod, making a "clacking" sound. The knobs are green, yellow, blue and red. The Playskool logo is imprinted on one knob and "MADE IN CHINA" is imprinted on the center ball.
Toy and mass merchandise stores, including Toys "R" Us and Wal-Mart, sold these toys from October 1997 through September 2000 for about $8 each.
Parents and caregivers should take the toy away from infants and young children immediately, and contact Playskool anytime at (888) 671-9764 to receive a free, redesigned replacement toy.
The recalled products will be replaced by a redesigned Klackeroo toy (model number 5542), which will feature a red center ball with no sliding geometric shapes. 
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