Healing Solutions Recalls Essential Oils Due to Failure to Meet Child Resistant Packaging Requirements; Risk of Poisoning
What's being recalled
Healing Solutions Wintergreen and Birch 100 percent Pure Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils
Units: About 32,000
This recall includes all 10-, 30- and 60-mililiter amber glass bottles of wintergreen and birch essential oils sold prior to April 15, 2019. The label on each bottle displays the name of the product-Wintergreen or Birch-"100% Pure Therapeutic Grade Essential Oil," and the size of the container.
The problem, in CPSC's words
The bottles are not child resistant as required by the Poison Prevention Packaging Act, posing a poisoning risk if the contents are swallowed by young children.
Incidents and injuries reported to CPSC
None reported
What CPSC says to do
Replace
Consumers should immediately remove the essential oils from the reach of children and contact Healing Solutions for a free replacement child-resistant cap.
How to contact the company
Healing Solutions at 800-819-4098 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. MT Monday through Friday; email at support@healingsolutions.com, put “Free Replacement Cap” in the subject line of the e-mail and in the body, provide your name, address, the bottle size for which you are requesting a replacement cap and the date you purchased the product; or online at healingsolutions.com and click on “Recall Information” for more information.
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Source: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recall notice 19200, cpsc.gov. Text in quotes is from CPSC. Photos: CPSC.