Bauer Hockey is recalling 100,000 children’s hockey sticks after Health Canada warned the company of the sticks high lead content.
Nearly 67,000 sticks from 13 recalled Nike Bauer junior and youth models were sold in Canada between 2004 and 2009. All of the sticks, except one model, were manufactured before 2008 in one of the company’s Chinese factories, Davis said.
Health Canada informed Bauer on Feb. 18 that it had conducted a random test and discovered the paint on the Nike Bauer Supreme One50 composite stick contained lead well in excess of the allowable limit. The Health Canada analysis showed that the paint on the recalled sticks contained a total lead level of 2.3%, nearly 40 times the maximum allowable limit of 0.06%.
On March 9, Health Canada issued an initial recall of the nearly 8,000 sticks that were sold in Canada. The Bauer testing turned up the 12 other models which have now been ordered off store shelves.
No illnesses related to the hockey stick recall have been reported to Bauer or Health Canada.
