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Meguiar’s Heavy Duty Headlight Restoration Kit recalled due to lack of child-resistant packaging

  • Summary

    Product: Meguiar’s Heavy Duty Headlight Restoration Kit, G2980C

    Issue: Consumer products – Labelling and packaging

    What to do: Immediately stop using the recalled product, keep them out of reach of children and contact the place of purchase to have your return processed.

  • Meguiar’s Heavy Duty Headlight Restoration Kit, G2980C
    Meguiar’s Heavy Duty Headlight Restoration Kit, G2980C

    Affected Products

    This recall involves Meguiar’s Heavy Duty Headlight Coating, which is included in Meguiar’s Heavy Duty Headlight Restoration Kit, product number G2980C and UPC 070382013486. The G2980C kit is in a yellow and black rectangular box (4.61” x 2.61” x 10.62”), prominently featuring a picture of a headlight on the main display panel. The kit contains Meguiar’s Heavy Duty Headlight Coating in a 100 mL amber glass bottle. This bottle has a model number G2402C.

  • Issue

    The recalled product does not meet child-resistant packaging requirements of the Consumer Chemicals and Container Regulations, 2001 under the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act.

    The lack of child-resistant packaging could result in unintentional exposure to these products and lead to serious illness, or injury, including death.

    As of October 16, 2022, the company has not received any report(s) of consumer incidents or injuries in Canada.

  • What you should do

    Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled product, keep them out of reach of children and contact the place of purchase to have their return processed.

    For more information, consumers can contact 3M Canada at 1-800-364-3577, Monday to Friday between 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST.

    Health Canada would like to remind Canadians to report any health or safety incidents related to the use of this product or any other consumer product or cosmetic by filling out the Consumer Product Incident Report Form (https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/consumer-product- safety/advisories-warnings-recalls/report-incident-involving-consumer-product.html).

    This recall is also posted on the OECD Global Portal on Product Recalls website (http://globalrecalls.oecd.org/). You can visit this site for more information on other international consumer product recalls.


Additional Information

Background:

  • Number Sold

    The company reported that 20,668 total kits were shipped to Canada.

  • Time Period Sold

    The affected products were sold from March 2022 to August 2022.

  • Place of Origin

    Manufactured in the United States of America.


Details:

Alert / recall type: Consumer product recall

Category: Consumer products

  • Subcategory
    Chemicals
  • Product Type

    Restoration Kit


Companies:

  • Distributor

    3M Canada Company
    1840 Oxford Street East
    Post Office Box 5790
    London, ON N5V 3R6

  • Importer

    3M Canada Company
    1840 Oxford Street East
    Post Office Box 5790
    London, ON N5V 3R6

  • Manufacturer

    Meguiar’s Inc
    17991 Mitchell South
    Irvine, CA 92614 USA


Published by: Health Canada
Audience: General public
Identification number: RA-xxxxx
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