Atico International USA Holiday rattle baby slippers

What went wrong

The notice saysThe internal stuffing and rattle inside the slippers decorative figures can be pulled out, posing a choking hazard to young children.

The federal small parts rule sets how small a detached piece has to be to count as a choking risk for children under three. Most shoe recalls in this group came after a firm learned that a decoration was coming off; many notices mention only a few reports. Decorations that look sturdy can still loosen with wear, so the notice’s style details are the thing to match.

How to tell if your pair is affected

Product description in the noticeThe recalled slippers are decorated with stuffed fabric figures including snowmen, Santa, reindeer, and penguins, and have decorative rattles inside the slippers that sound like bells when shaken. Item number 999526 is printed on the back of the cardboard header card packaging. "Find Your Joy" is printed on the front of the slippers packaging.

Numbers named in the notice that you can match against the label, box or receipt:

• 999526

What the notice tells you to do

RemedyThe firm is out of business, the remedy is no longer available, and the product should be discarded or destroyed.

The recall is 15 years old, and the last pairs were sold about 15 years ago. A child who wore these at the time has long outgrown them, yet slippers like these keep circulating through younger siblings, swaps and thrift racks. The notice gives no direct phone or web contact for the firm; details that old may have changed, and the CPSC notice stays online as the record.

How this recall compares

• With about 57,000 units, this is the 23rd largest of the 95 footwear recalls in our archive that give a U.S. unit count. The median recall in the archive covers about 7,200 units, so this one is well above typical size.
• 41 other footwear recalls in the archive cite the same kind of hazard (choking), 41 of them in children’s footwear. The earliest in this group dates from 1993.
• The notice puts the sales window at about 4 months (October 2010 to January 2011), against a median of 7 months across recalls that state one. The recall came 2 months after the last sale date.
• The notice gives a price of $5. For slippers and booties in the archive the typical stated price is about $13, so this pair sat at the cheaper end of its group.
• The notice cites 1 report before the recall. 36 of the 95 detailed notices in the archive cite no incidents at all.

Year, part, store and origin

• 2011 brought 7 footwear recalls in our archive, covering about 192,400 units in all. This was the 1st of the year by date and the 1st largest by units.
• The notice names the decoration as the part that fails. 4 other footwear recalls in the archive name the same part in their hazard statement; the most recent is Koala children’s sandals with butterfly wings (2014).
• Made in China. 61 of the 91 notices in the archive that name a country list China (67%).
• 1 report on about 57,000 units works out to roughly 1.8 reports per 100,000 units. The median across the 55 recalls that give both figures is 16, so this recall drew fewer reports per pair than most.
• At the stated price, the 57,000 units come to roughly $290,000 of retail sales.

Comparisons use the 103 footwear recalls in our archive, read from the CPSC recall database on October 20, 2026. See data and methods.