Riviton Sets Recalled by Parker Brothers
CPSC recall 78103. Recall date: . Last publish date of the CPSC notice: .
Hazard, in the words of CPSC
Choking
CPSC recall 78103 has the recall date 11 Dec 1978. The notice names the firm Riviton. The CPSC record gives no number of units. This register puts the recall under the hazard Choking. CPSC gives the product type Toy Miscellaneous.
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| Description | Riviton Sets Recalled by Parker Brothers NEWS from CPSC U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Office of Information and Public Affairs Washington, DC 20207 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 11, 1978 Release # 78-103 Riviton Sets Voluntarily Held WASHINGTON, D.C. (Dec. II) -- More than 125,000 toy construction sets manufactured by Parker Brothers are being voluntarily held in inventory in two company warehouses in Salem, Massachusetts and Des Moines, Iowa, after the company announced its voluntary recall of 900,000 Riviton sets. A Parker Brothers spokesman told the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) that 27,000 of the Riviton construction sets have now been returned. Parker Brothers had made the decision to voluntarily withdraw this product from the market because of two accidental deaths associated with the product. The company reached this decision after the recent death of a 9-year-old child was attributed to the choking on a rubber fastening rivet from the Riviton Construction Toy. Riviton Construction Toys have been distributed nationally during the past two years. Parker Brothers, a subsidiary of General Mills, Inc., is asking all consumers to return the product for a… |
| Product | Toy Miscellaneous |
| Product | Riviton toy construction sets |
| Manufacturer | Riviton; Parker Brothers; General Mills |
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The recall in context
- Units in this recall
- not givenMedian of 1978: not given
- CPSC recalls of 1978
- 43
- Recalls of 1978 with one of the same hazards
- 5%
- Recalls of 1978 in the category Toy Miscellaneous
- 5%
- Recalls on the register that name Riviton
- 1
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Recall Register. CPSC recall 78103. https://recallregister.com/product/3958-riviton-sets-recalled-by-parker-brothers/. Source: CPSC Recall Retrieval Web Services. Data through .
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- Data retrieved
- 30 Sep 2026
- Newest CPSC recall on the register
- 24 Sep 2026
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Questions
- Does CPSC recall 78103 report injuries?
- The CPSC record of recall 78103 has no incident or injury text.