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Vitamix remembers 569,000 mixing containers and blade bases after dozens of lacerations

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Vitamix is recalling greater than half 1,000,000 mixing containers and blade bases offered at retailers nationwide after experiences of greater than two dozen lacerations, in keeping with a notice posted Thursday by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The recall includes all Ascent and Venturist Series 8-ounce and 20-ounce mixing containers and blade bases, together with these repaired as a part of a previous recall in August 2018. The containers can separate from the blender’s blade base, which may then expose the blades and create a laceration hazard, in keeping with the Cleveland, Ohio-based producer. 

About 569,000 of the containers and blade bases have been offered by retailers together with Best Buy, Costco, Crate & Barrel, Macy’s, Target, Walmart and Williams Sonoma and on-line at Amazon, QVC and Vitamix from April 2017 by May 2024. The recalled merchandise offered for between $30 and $990 for the blender and mixing containers when offered with different merchandise.

An further 121,950 mixing containers and blade bases have been offered in Canada. 

Vitamix has acquired 27 experiences of lacerations, together with 11 experiences from the sooner recall, when shoppers’ palms got here in touch with uncovered blades, the corporate stated. 

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Image of recalled 8-ounce Vitamix mixing bowl. 

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission


Anyone with the recalled merchandise ought to cease utilizing them and speak to Vitamix for a protecting plastic shroud to connect over the blade base and extra tutorial labels. 

The firm could be reached at 855-215-5178 from 8 a.m. to five p.m. ET, Monday by Friday, electronic mail at service@vitamix.com or on-line here or here



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