Miracle Botanicals Recalls Wintergreen and Birch Essential Oils Due to Failure to Meet Child Resistant Packaging Requirement; Risk of Poisoning (Recall Alert)
What's being recalled
Miracle Botanicals Wintergreen and Birch Essential Oils
Units: About 380
This recall involves Miracle Botanicals Wintergreen Essential Oil and Birch Essential Oil in 5 mL, 10 mL and 30 mL amber glass bottles with black caps. "Miracle Botanicals", "Sweet Birch" and "Wintergreen" are printed on the white label. Each bottle displays the product name.
The problem, in CPSC's words
The products contain the substance methyl salicylate which must be in child resistant packaging as required by the Poison Prevention Packaging Act (PPPA). The packaging of the products is not child resistant, posing a risk of poisoning 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 store the products in a safe location out of reach of children. Contact Miracle Botanicals for a free child-resistant replacement cap. Miracle Botanicals is directly notifying all known purchasers who purchased the products on MiracleBotanicals.com and Etsy.com. For products purchased on Amazon.com, all known purchasers are being notified directly by Amazon.
How to contact the company
Miracle Botanicals toll-free at 888-665-7719 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. HT Monday through Friday, email at [email protected], put “Free Replacement Cap” in the subject line of the e-mail and in the body, provide your name and address; or online at www.miraclebotanicals.com and click on “Recall Information”.
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Source: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recall notice 20760, cpsc.gov. Text in quotes is from CPSC. Photos: CPSC.