On September 24 the Consumer Product Safety Commission posted eleven recalls, and the Federal Register printed a Commission proposal on the cords of window blinds and shades. Comments on the proposal are due November 23.

The recalls, largest first

The eleven notices' approximate unit counts add to 196,678 sold in the United States; five recalls account for 189,532 of them. Ten list Amazon.com as a place of sale, six as the only one. Seven were recalled because the product violates a mandatory federal standard. No deaths are reported.

The Blue Cactus Company battery packs for reclining chairs, model RWX-RBP02, about 51,000. The lithium-ion battery can overheat. Amazon.com only, May 2023 through July 2026, about $105. Replacement battery pack.
Kesyup mattresses (ZCK01), about 48,405. They violate the mattress flammability standard. Amazon.com only, December 2024 through April 2026, $100 to $200. Refund.
ABC Trading light-up glasses, headbands and ties, about 43,674. The button cell battery compartments "can be easily accessed by children". About $1, in ABC Trading stores in Los Angeles, specialty stores nationwide and online, September 2016 through May 2026. Refund.
Aitjunz 8-drawer dressers (Yuyitop), about 25,073. They violate the mandatory standards required by the STURDY Act. Amazon.com, Wayfair, TEMU and Walmart, May 2025 through July 2026, $230 to $270. One tip-over report, no injuries. Stop using any not anchored to the wall; free counterweight retrofit kit.
NEWDERY power banks, model ZHX-PB22, about 21,380. Amazon.com only, October 2023 to November 2024, $27 to $50. Refund. The heaviest record of the day:

NEWDERY has received nine reports of the recalled power banks exploding and igniting, including one report of a serious fire resulting in $2 million in property damage and one report of a burn injury.

They were last sold about 22 months before the recall.

One recall, two records

The Blue Cactus page on cpsc.gov says:

CPSC is aware of four reports of the batteries overheating, smoking, or igniting.

The CPSC's recalls feed at SaferProducts.gov, which publishes the same recalls as data, leaves this recall's injuries field empty; for seven of the other ten it says none were reported. A tool reading only the feed would show no incident history for the day's largest recall. Hugin has built earlier roundups from the feed alone; this time both loaded, and they disagree.

The other six

Product	Units (U.S.)	Hazard	Reports	Remedy
Love To Dream sleep machines, model LTD-SM23, date code 7W15TN	~4,000	lithium-ion battery can overheat with an incompatible charger	none	refund
INMO Air3 smart glasses	~~1,643 (+~~120 Canada)	left temple can overheat	10 of overheating, incl. a burning sensation	free repair (software update)
WinxMatrs mattresses	~792	violate flammability standard	none	refund
5Color child bike helmet sets, size small	~324	violate helmet standard	none	refund
Emerspring mattresses	~263	violate flammability standard	none	free fitted cover
Hyperfuels fuel containers	~124	no flame mitigation; methanol not child-resistant	none	refund or replacement

Love To Dream sold through September 2026, including at Target and Nordstrom.

Getting rid of them

The three lithium-ion notices carry the same warning: "Recalled lithium-ion batteries must be disposed of differently than other batteries, because they present a greater risk of fire." Not household trash, curbside recycling or store battery boxes; they point to a municipal household hazardous waste center, and say to call first.

ABC Trading asks for "a photograph showing the product being disposed of in the trash". The same notice adds: "Batteries should be disposed of or recycled by following local hazardous waste procedures."

Every recall page also says: "Federal law prohibits any person from selling products subject to a Commission ordered recall or a voluntary recall undertaken in consultation with the CPSC."

The cord proposal

In 2022 the Commission put certain window-covering cords on its substantial product hazard list: hazardous operating and inner cords on stock products, hazardous inner cords on custom ones. On September 22 it voted 3-0 to propose adding, for custom coverings, accessible free-hanging operating cords longer than 8 inches; exposed continuous loops on horizontal blinds; exposed loops without an attached tension device on other types; single retractable cords with a stroke over 36 inches; and missing warning labels or tags on tension-device loops and retractable cords. It would add cord loop lifts on roll-up shades, stock or custom. The yardstick is the industry's voluntary standard, ANSI/WCMA A100.1-2022, in effect since June 1, 2024.

The notice: "A rule under section 15(j) of the CPSA is not a consumer product safety rule and does not create a consumer product safety standard." If final, it would make non-conforming products reportable, with possible civil and criminal penalties for failing to report, open to corrective action, and barred at the border: "a product that is offered for import into the United States that presents an SPH shall be refused admission into the United States". Customs could also seize them.

What is inside it

Staff counted 73 window-cord incidents from January 2018 through December 2025, all involving children 8 years old and younger. Among them: 21 pull-cord incidents on horizontal blinds, 18 of them deaths; seven deaths involving continuous loops; one 2019 death involving a cord loop lift on a roll-up shade.

Warning labels were already there: "In fact, most of the window coverings involved in incidents contained the permanent warning labeling required by the ANSI/WCMA standard."

And the existing rule is not holding online. Stock roll-up shades with accessible cords over 8 inches should not have been made or imported since December 28, 2022. "However, CPSC has found several stock roll up style shades with hazardous cord loop lifts and in violation of the standard." Staff found none from major online retailers with physical stores. At online retailers, about 25 percent of the market, staff "identified non-compliant roll up style shades on seven websites; 37 percent of the offerings were corded, and 63 percent were cordless." All eleven window-covering recalls the document lists for 2025 were for long operating cords.

The rule that came before

The same day in 2022 the Commission issued a mandatory standard for operating cords on custom window coverings. On September 12, 2023 the D.C. Circuit, in No. 22-1300, described it as "essentially prohibiting corded window products", found that the Commission had breached notice-and-comment requirements, relied in error on certain data in its cost-benefit analysis and set an arbitrary effective date, and ruled: "we grant the petition for review, vacate the Final Rule, and remand this matter to the Commission for further proceedings."

The new proposal does not discuss that standard or the ruling; the standard appears only in the file names of two staff briefing packages cited in footnotes. It adopts only the readily observable parts of the industry's own standard, and would take effect 30 days after a final rule because, the Commission says, the market already substantially complies.

How to comment

Written comments must be received by November 23, 2026, at regulations.gov, docket CPSC-2026-0463. The Window Covering Manufacturers Association posts a free read-only copy of the standard. The Commission says it will release the 43 completed investigation files on request, as far as the law allows.

What the record does not say

Timing. No recall notice says when its reports arrived.
Totals. 196,678 is this desk's sum, without INMO's Canadian units. Recall number 26-795 falls inside the day's range; the feed returned nothing for it.
Every outcome. The proposal gives no outcomes for 44 of its 73 incidents; the deaths it counts by category add to 26. Its pull-cord count uses a shorter, unstated time frame, and that table stops at 2023.
Tidy tables. Its recall table is headed "January 1, 2009 to August 31, 2024" though its rows run from 2018 to September 2025, and two firms share recall number 25-478.
Blinds already hanging. It names no surveyed retailer and does not say what a final rule would mean for coverings already in homes.
The old standard on paper. The eCFR still printed the vacated standard as 16 CFR part 1260 on September 27; this desk's Federal Register search found no document removing it.