The inner plastic straw in the flip-top portion of the twist-off cap can break
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Zak Designs of Airway Heights, Wash., is recalling about 178,000 26-ounce water bottles.
The inner plastic straw in the flip-top portion of the twist-off cap can break, posing a choking hazard.
The company has received nine reports of the inner plastic straw in the flip-top portion of the cap breaking, including seven reports of plastic fragments spit out by children using the bottle. No injuries have been reported.
The ten-inch tall Zak Designs 26-ounce plastic water bottles have a flip-top spout on a twist-off cap with colored inner plastic straws in clear, blue, gray, green, light purple or red. The water bottles have popular characters on the front and come in a variety of colors including clear, gray, navy blue, pink, teal blue, gray with colored caps in red, blue pink and yellow.
Characters include Captain America, a Batman design, Minions, My Little Pony, Spiderman, Star Wars aircraft, a Superman logo, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Thor and Wonder Woman.
Mold number “14158” and “Zak Designs” are embossed on the bottom of the bottles in the recall. Bottles with a black inner straw and black twist-off cap are not included in the recall.
The water bottles, manufactured in China, were sold exclusively at Target stores during the “Back-to-College” promotion nationwide from June 2015, through July 2015, for about $10.
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled water bottles and contact Zak Designs for instructions on receiving a free replacement cap with straw.
Consumers may contact Zak Designs toll-free at 866-737-1148 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (ET) Monday through Friday or online at http://www.zak.com/lid_replacement for more information.