Recall: Juicers left particle shavings in the liquid and users got cut when they drank
Fresh-squeezed juice shouldn’t send you to the emergency room with lacerations or bruises. That’s why Empower Brands recalled about 479,900 PowerXL Self-Cleaning Juicers Thursday in the United States and Canada.
The problem, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recall notice: “The juicers can rupture during use, striking consumers and posing a laceration hazard, or can leave small particle shavings in the juice, posing an ingestion hazard to consumers.”
The notice says Empower knows about “261 reports of incidents including 47 reports of injuries, some of which involved severe cuts requiring emergency treatment” and “stitches, bruises and ingestion of small particles requiring medical attention.”
This involves model No. SHL90-SC, which was sold by Walmart online and in brick-and-mortar stores and other retailers standing stores; and model No. SHL96, which was sold by Walmart, Target, Amazon.com, Marshalls, Kohl’s, CVS, T.J. Maxx and BJ’s Wholesale Club.
Empower is eating the cost on this one and telling consumers to contact them about refunds. You can contact Empower through the recall section of its website; by calling 866-606-2441, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Eastern time; or emailing juicerrecall@brandprotectplus.com.
