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SEC Obtains Final Judgment as to Defendants Charged in Forex Offering Fraud
WASHINGTON, April 25 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 4:22-cv-04365; S.D. Tex. filed Dec. 16, 2022):
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Securities and Exchange Commission v. John Fernandez, et al., No. 4:22-cv-04365 (S.D. Tex. filed Dec. 16, 2022)
On April 14, 2026, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas entered a final judgment as to John Fernandez and two companies he controlled, Avail Progression, LLC and Elite Generators, LLC, in connection with the SEC's civil enforcement action against them.
According to the SEC's complaint, filed
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WASHINGTON, April 25 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 4:22-cv-04365; S.D. Tex. filed Dec. 16, 2022):
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Securities and Exchange Commission v. John Fernandez, et al., No. 4:22-cv-04365 (S.D. Tex. filed Dec. 16, 2022)
On April 14, 2026, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas entered a final judgment as to John Fernandez and two companies he controlled, Avail Progression, LLC and Elite Generators, LLC, in connection with the SEC's civil enforcement action against them.
According to the SEC's complaint, filedon December 16, 2022, Fernandez promised to pay investors guaranteed returns by trading their funds in the forex markets. However, the complaint alleges that instead of trading investors' money as promised, Fernandez used the majority of the investor funds to make Ponzi payments and for his own personal expenses.
The final judgment, which follows the Court entering bifurcated judgments as to the defendants on April 19, 2023 and granting the SEC's motion for monetary relief on March 30, 2026, permanently enjoins Fernandez, Avail Progression, and Elite Generators from violating Sections 5(a), 5(c), and 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder; permanently enjoins Fernandez from participating in the issuance, offer, purchase or sale of any security except for purchases or sales for his own personal accounts; and prohibits Fernandez from acting as an officer or director of a public company. In addition, the final judgment orders the defendants to pay disgorgement in the amount of $5,002,383.00 and prejudgment interest in the amount of $1,626,707.93, on a joint and several basis, and orders Fernandez to pay a civil penalty in the amount of $472,902.00.
The SEC's investigation was conducted by Jillian Harris and Carol Hahn of the SEC's Fort Worth Regional Office. The SEC's litigation was led by Tyson M. Lies and Matthew J. Gulde and supervised by Keefe Bernstein.
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Resources
* SEC Complaint (https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/complaints/2026/comp26539.pdf)
* Final Judgment (https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/litreleases/2026/judg26539.pdf)
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Original text here: https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releases/lr-26539
SEC Commissioner Peirce Issues Remarks at the International Institute on Capital Formation
WASHINGTON, April 25 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following remarks on April 24, 2026, by Commissioner Hester M. Peirce at the International Institute on Capital Formation:
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Green Lighting Capital Formation: Remarks at the SEC International Institute on Capital Formation
Welcome to the SEC's International Institute on Capital Formation. My views are my own as a Commissioner and not necessarily those of the SEC or my fellow Commissioners.
I am delighted that during this week you are having the opportunity to hear from many of my colleagues about various aspects of
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WASHINGTON, April 25 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following remarks on April 24, 2026, by Commissioner Hester M. Peirce at the International Institute on Capital Formation:
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Green Lighting Capital Formation: Remarks at the SEC International Institute on Capital Formation
Welcome to the SEC's International Institute on Capital Formation. My views are my own as a Commissioner and not necessarily those of the SEC or my fellow Commissioners.
I am delighted that during this week you are having the opportunity to hear from many of my colleagues about various aspects ofcapital formation. Capital formation is one of my favorite topics; if done well, it can alter the course of a nation. The prosperity of future generations requires the current investment of capital in worthwhile endeavors. Good regulation can foster healthy capital formation. A shared, sensible approach to regulating capital formation globally can help to bring the world together for the mutual benefit of people all over the world.
The best resource the world has--even in this artificial intelligence era--is the human mind. Some of your nations are overflowing with that resource as reflected in the low median age of your populations.[1] Through a combination of material (food, shelter, and clothing), emotional, and educational support, we must empower our young people to develop their minds so they can tackle humanity's many challenges. We also need to fuel their problem-solving capabilities and creativity by facilitating their access to the financial resources they need to experiment and ultimately to commercialize their ideas.
Some nations entrust to the government the important task of finding and funding ingenuity. After all, if getting capital into the right hands to empower bright minds is so important for human prosperity, shouldn't the government manage the process? Certainly not! Governmental efforts to allocate capital tend to inhibit, rather than encourage, human flourishing. First, governments are too slow and ponderous to be able to shift capital flows in response to changing technology and societal needs. Second, when the government controls the funding spigot, political and bureaucratic connections tend to overshadow merit in driving capital. Third and relatedly, companies and entrepreneurs start to pay more attention to what government--which will determine their funding fate--wants than to what their actual and potential customers might want. Government ends up driving decisions about what problems to work on and which solutions to pursue. Fourth, government decision-makers--generally isolated from innovators and insulated from the consequences of bad decisions--tend not to be good at predicting what problems will need to be solved and how they should be solved. For all these reasons, capital allocated directly by government or indirectly by government nudges often does not go to the highest and best use. Misallocated capital prevents the economy from growing as rapidly as it otherwise would and prevents societal problems from being solved as quickly as they should be.
The task of allocating capital is simply too important for government or any other single entity to manage. Here is where private capital markets of the sort the SEC regulates come in. By bringing together a huge, dispersed, heterogeneous, self-motivated set of capital providers and an ever-changing set of companies in need of capital, private capital markets facilitate testing by many independent minds of different proposals for using capital. Does the system work perfectly? No, but the more participants and the wider the diversity of perspectives offering and competing for capital in the private markets, the more effective the markets will be at finding and funding solutions to human problems. The multiplicity of voices and viewpoints in the private markets means that capital allocation decisions are constantly being tested. The ability of anyone--regardless of her familial, political, or social connections--to come to those markets and make a pitch for funding is another strength of a market-driven economy. Good regulation encourages broad participation by funders and by companies seeking funding. So rather than making decisions about how capital should be allocated, governments should create an environment conducive to optimal private decision-making.
My hope is that this Institute will prompt robust thought and discussion about how to regulate well. What types of rules give investors the confidence to put their money into enterprises run by talented strangers? What types of rules ensure that a person who has a good plan for putting capital to work can find that capital even if she does not have wealthy or politically connected friends? How can a regulator administer and enforce rules in a manner that is not arbitrary or overbearing but ensures that rules are taken seriously?
The goal is a ruleset that works for both investors with capital and entrepreneurs and growing companies in need of capital. In the infancy of the Securities Act of 1933, which governs the issuance of securities, an official of the predecessor entity to the SEC explained:
The Securities Act is not predicated upon the theory that the interests of investors are in conflict with the interests of the issuers. On the contrary, it embodies a recognition of the fact that the investor and the corporation are mutually dependent. Neither can continue to prosper at the expense of the other.[2]
Well-functioning capital markets enable entrepreneurs to focus on finding solutions to society's problems and enable investors to share in the successful entrepreneur's returns.
I was originally scheduled to address this conference on November 20th of last year, but we had a government shutdown--another reason that markets, which stay open, are better capital allocators than governments. November 20th was meaningful because on the same date in 1923 one of my favorite entrepreneurs, Garrett Morgan, who lived and worked in Cleveland, Ohio, patented a new traffic light.[3] The invention was Morgan's solution to preventing collisions like one that he had witnessed. In contrast to the old lights that switched from stop to go with no transition period, Morgan's "T-shaped pole unit . . . featured three positions: Stop, Go, and an all-directional stop position."[4] Morgan installed the first of those traffic lights a few miles from where I attended high school.[5] Another of his inventions--the Morgan National Safety Hood--protected people battling fires from breathing noxious fumes.[6] He was able to use the hood himself in a harrowing rescue effort during a tunnel fire under Lake Erie in 1916.[7] Morgan--even in the face of obstacles including prejudice from the very people whom he sought to help--was a serial inventor: someone who, in the words of his granddaughter, "couldn't help himself when he saw a problem. He had a humanitarian spirit that needed to help."[8]
A century later, another Cleveland entrepreneur, Gary Wnek, is carrying on the Morgan tradition of serial innovation. He has developed a material to absorb shocks when people fall and, like Morgan, a fire-protective technology--Wnek's invention is a flame-retardant coating for metals and plastics.[9] As Wnek puts it, "It's a life skill to think about a need . . . [and] to evaluate how well it is being met and propose a solution."[10]
Identifying needs and solutions is the innovator's spontaneous response to life's challenges. Consider Jim Moylan, who developed the now ubiquitous dashboard arrow pointing to the side of the car with the gas tank after an uncomfortable wrong guess on a borrowed car at a gas station during a rain storm.[11] Marie Van Brittan Brown, troubled by increasing crime rates in her neighborhood, patented with her husband an early and sophisticated forerunner of the modern home security system in the 1960s.[12] Author Lorraine Marchand identified Brown's "innovation mindset": "She observed a significant need--in her case, that basic need of personal safety for herself and her family--and was motivated to find a solution."[13] More recently, Dr. Elizabeth Clayborne, developed a device to stop nosebleeds after seeing so many patients coming into the emergency room suffering from them and, in her words, she "couldn't stop thinking about it."[14] To raise money to bring her patented device to market, she used a whole range of funding mechanisms: a business accelerator, angel investors, friends, family, venture capital funds, and crowdfunding.[15] Andrew Smith Hallidie, who died on this date in 1900, iterated on the metal wire his father had developed to improve mining operations, build suspension bridges, and replace overtaxed horses in San Francisco with the cable cars that still climb the city's hills.[16] In addition to facing many engineering challenges of building a cable car, Hallidie struggled to find financial backers; in the words of one author, "A less determined man would have given up in despair."[17]
Innovators like Morgan, Wnek, Moylan, Brown, Clayborne, and Hallidie should inspire capital markets regulators to facilitate effective capital formation. Private citizens observing problems around them and setting about to solve them without any grand government plan improve our societies and our economies. Human ingenuity matters, but so does the money, and the way we regulate the capital markets affects whether funding is available. If we do our jobs well, private markets will support these innovators as they identify problems, solve them, and bring their solutions to market. Regulating to facilitate the flow of capital to people who cannot stop themselves from helping others is a noble pursuit. It requires great care and considerable restraint: our job is not to do the matchmaking, but to create a regulatory environment conducive to money and ideas meeting. I look forward to working with all of you in this room in that delicate and important effort. Let us collaborate to ensure that our capital markets serve as a mechanism for empowering our citizens to develop their talents and to use them to serve humanity.
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[1] See, e.g., Median Age by Country 2026, WORLD POPULATION REVIEW, https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-age (last visited Apr. 1, 2026).
[2] Baldwin B. Baine, Chief, Sec. Div. of the Fed. Trade Comm'n, Address on the Securities Act of 1933, at 4 (Sep. 12, 1933), https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/1933/091233bane.pdf.
[3] See Safer Stop and Go: Garret Morgan's Traffic Signal Legacy Inventor, Invention, and Patent, U.S. DEP'T OF TRANSP. FED. HIGHWAY ADMIN., https://highways.dot.gov/highway-history/general-highway-history/safer-stop-and-go-garrett-morgans-traffic-signal-legacy (last visited Apr. 3, 2026).
[4] The Morgan Traffic Signal Question, FORT WORTH MODELA FORD CLUB, https://fortworthmodela.org/the-morgan-traffic-signal/ (last visited Apr. 3, 2026).
[5] See Frank W. Lewis, Cleveland inventor Garret Morgan and his most famous innovation to be celebrated this weekend, SIGNAL CLEVELAND (Nov. 15, 2023), https://signalcleveland.org/willoughby-to-celebrate-cleveland-inventor-garrett-morgan-and-his-most-famous-innovation/.
[6] See Breathing Device, U.S. Patent No. 1,113,675 (filed Aug. 19, 1912) (issued Oct. 13, 1914), 1499081601852437232-01113675; see also Improvement in Breathing Device, U.S. Patent No. 1,090,936 (filed Sep. 21, 1912) (issued Mar. 24, 1914), 1499089161234980325-01090936.
[7] See Garrett Morgan Saves the Day, OHIO MEMORY (July 20, 2021), https://ohiomemory.ohiohistory.org/archives/5458.
[8] Of courage and caution, U.S. PAT. AND TRADE OFF., https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/journeys-innovation/historical-stories/courage-and-caution (last visited Apr. 3, 2026).
[9] See Diana Steele, Gary Wnek's curiosity sends him in wide-ranging directions, CASE W. RSRV. UNIV., https://case.edu/think/spring2025/material-solutions.html (last visited Apr. 3, 2026).
[10] Id.
[11] See Ben Cohen, The Genius Whose Simple Invention Saved Us from Shame at the Gas Station, WALL ST. J. (Jan. 2, 2026, at 18:00 ET), https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/ford-gas-arrow-inventor-jim-moylan-6b2ef066?msockid=367293e5bbeb6faa3e938511ba1b6e6e.
[12] See Home Security System Utilizing Television Surveillance, U.S. Patent No. 3,482,037 (filed Aug. 1, 1966) (issued Dec. 2, 1969), https://patents.google.com/patent/US3482037A/en ("A video and audio security system for a house under control of an occupant thereof. The system includes a video scanning device at the entrance door of the house to scan a visitor outside the door, and includes audio intercommunication equipment inside and outside the door for conversing with the vis[i]tor outside the door. A lock is provided for the door with releasing means for the lock manually controlled by the occupant of the house."); see also Laura Hilgers, A Brief History of the Invention of the Home Security Alarm, SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE (Mar. 2021), https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/history-home-security-alarm-180977002/.
[13] Lorraine H. Marchand, The Innovative Mindset of Marie Van Brittan Brown, COLUMBIA UNIV. PRESS BLOG (Feb. 12, 2022), https://cupblog.org/2022/02/21/the-innovative-mindset-of-marie-van-brittan-brown-lorraine-marchand/.
[14] Patty Zamora, Turning an idea into a viable company, CASE W. RSRV. UNIV. (Oct. 21, 2025), https://case.edu/news/turning-idea-viable-company.
[15] Id.
[16] See U.S. DEP'T OF TRANSP., HIST. CONTEXT REP. FOR TRANSIT RAIL SYS. DEV. 1, 88 (Jun. 2017), transit.dot.gov/sites/fta.dot.gov/files/docs/regulations-and-guidance/environmental-programs/63526/ftahistoriccontextreport508compliant.pdf; Edgar Myron Kahn, Andrew Smith Hallidie, Museum of the City of San Francisco, http://www.sfmuseum.org/bio/hallidie.html (last visited April 22, 2026). Hallidie explained: "I was largely induced to think over the matter from seeing the difficulty and pain the horses experienced in hauling the cars up Jackson Street, from Kearny to Stockton Street, on which street four or five horses were needed for the purpose-the driving being accompanied by the free use of the whip and voice, and occasionally by the horses falling and being dragged down the hill on their sides, by the car loaded with passengers sliding on its track....." Id.
[17] Id.
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Original text here: https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/speeches-statements/peirce-remarks-sec-international-institute-capital-formation-042426
NRC Expands Wyoming's Authority Over Key Nuclear Materials as Rare Earth Development Grows
WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following news release:
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NRC Expands Wyoming's Authority Over Key Nuclear Materials as Rare Earth Development Grows
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved an amendment to its agreement with Wyoming, allowing the state to take on expanded regulatory authority over certain radioactive materials tied to mineral processing, an area gaining importance as domestic rare earth development accelerates.
Effective April 30, 2026, the amendment enables Wyoming to regulate source material recovered during
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WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following news release:
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NRC Expands Wyoming's Authority Over Key Nuclear Materials as Rare Earth Development Grows
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved an amendment to its agreement with Wyoming, allowing the state to take on expanded regulatory authority over certain radioactive materials tied to mineral processing, an area gaining importance as domestic rare earth development accelerates.
Effective April 30, 2026, the amendment enables Wyoming to regulate source material recovered duringthe processing of minerals such as rare earth elements, where uranium or thorium is not the primary product. This change reflects growing national interest in strengthening U.S. supply chains for critical minerals used in energy, defense, and advanced technologies.
"Our amended agreement reaffirms NRC's commitment to enabling the safe and secure use of nuclear materials through strong partnerships with our state counterparts," NRC Chairman Ho K. Nieh said. "Effective collaboration between federal and state regulators is fundamental to protecting public health and safety while fostering responsible innovation."
Wyoming has regulated uranium recovery facilities and certain byproduct materials under an NRC agreement since 2018. This amendment expands that authority to include additional source material generated as a byproduct of other mineral processing activities, positioning the state to play a larger role in overseeing emerging sectors such as rare earth production.
Following a comprehensive review, the NRC determined Wyoming's program is adequate to protect public health and safety and compatible with agency requirements. With this approval, the NRC will transfer regulatory authority for this category of materials to the state, including oversight of licensing, inspection, and enforcement. One existing NRC license will be transferred to Wyoming as part of the agreement.
A notice of the amendment was published in the Federal Register. Supporting documents and additional information about the NRC's Agreement State program are available on the NRC website.
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission was created as an expert, technical agency to protect public health, safety, and security, and regulate the civilian use of nuclear materials, including enabling the deployment of nuclear power for the benefit of society. Among other responsibilities, the agency issues licenses, conducts inspections, initiates and enforces regulations, and plans for incident response. The NRC is collaborating with interagency partners to implement reforms outlined in new Executive Orders and the ADVANCE Act to streamline agency activities and enhance efficiency.
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Original text here: https://www.nrc.gov/sites/default/files/cdn/doc-collection-news/2026/26-044.pdf
CPSC Issues Recall Alert Involving TOETOL Tower Stools
WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued the following recall alert on April 23, 2026:
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Name of Product: TOETOL Tower Stools
Hazard: The recalled tower stools can collapse or tip over while in use and a child's torso can fit through the openings on the tower's sides, posing a risk of serious injury and death due to tip over, fall and entrapment hazards.
Remedy: Refund
Recall Date: April 23, 2026
Units: About 3,000
Consumer Contact: TOETOL HOME via email at TOETOLHOMEStepStoolsrecall@outlook.com.
Recall Details
Description: This recall involves TOETOL HOME-branded
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WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued the following recall alert on April 23, 2026:
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Name of Product: TOETOL Tower Stools
Hazard: The recalled tower stools can collapse or tip over while in use and a child's torso can fit through the openings on the tower's sides, posing a risk of serious injury and death due to tip over, fall and entrapment hazards.
Remedy: Refund
Recall Date: April 23, 2026
Units: About 3,000
Consumer Contact: TOETOL HOME via email at TOETOLHOMEStepStoolsrecall@outlook.com.
Recall Details
Description: This recall involves TOETOL HOME-brandedchildren's tower stools, model DETD0001. The wooden kitchen tower step stools were sold in white, gray and dark wood colors and measure about 20 inches deep, 15 inches wide and 36 inches tall with model DETD0001 printed on a label on the side.
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled tower stools and contact TOETOL HOME for a full refund. Consumers will be asked to destroy the stool by disassembling it and send a photo of the destroyed stool to TOETOLHOMEStepStoolsrecall@outlook.com. Consumers should then dispose of the destroyed product.
Incidents/Injuries: The firm has received 18 reports of the stools collapsing, resulting in eleven injuries including contusions, cuts and scrapes.
Sold Online At: Amazon.com from October 2024 through March 2026 for about $130.
Importer(s): Dali Fortune Trade CO., dba TOETOL HOME, of China
Manufactured In: China
Recall number: 26-432
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Original text here: https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026/Childrens-Tower-Stools-Recalled-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Injury-and-Death-from-Entrapment-and-Fall-Hazards-Imported-by-TOETOL-HOME
CPSC Issues Recall Alert Involving KMUYSL Big Red Barn Farm Animal Playsets
WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued the following recall alert on April 23, 2026:
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Name of Product: KMUYSL Big Red Barn Farm Animal Playsets
Hazard: The recalled children's toys violate the small parts ban because the toy is intended for children under three years of age and the fence handles can detach from the toy, posing a deadly choking hazard.
Remedy: Refund
Recall Date: April 23, 2026
Units: 3,000
Consumer Contact: MISSJUNE email at kmuyslfarmanimalrecall@gmail.com.
Recall Details
Description: This recall involves KMUYSL Big Red Barn Farm Animal
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WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued the following recall alert on April 23, 2026:
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Name of Product: KMUYSL Big Red Barn Farm Animal Playsets
Hazard: The recalled children's toys violate the small parts ban because the toy is intended for children under three years of age and the fence handles can detach from the toy, posing a deadly choking hazard.
Remedy: Refund
Recall Date: April 23, 2026
Units: 3,000
Consumer Contact: MISSJUNE email at kmuyslfarmanimalrecall@gmail.com.
Recall Details
Description: This recall involves KMUYSL Big Red Barn Farm AnimalPlaysets. The children's toy sets consist of one red barn, one farmer figure and nine animal figures, including a cow, donkey, duck, sheep, chicken, goose, horse, pig and rabbit. The barn measures 9.6 inches long by 4.4 inches wide by 8.8 inches high, the size of the animal figures are about 1.8 inches long by 2 inches wide. The model number "SY-MZ7S-TVMV" is printed on the label located on the back of the packaging.
Remedy: Consumers should stop using the recalled toys immediately, take them away from children and contact MISSJUNE for a full refund. Consumers will be asked to remove and properly dispose of the fence handles into the trash and send a photo of the disposed product to kmuyslfarmanimalrecall@gmail.com to receive a full refund.
Incidents/Injuries: None reported
Sold Online At: Amazon.com from July 2023 through June 2025 for about $20.
Seller: Shenzhen Leye E-commerce Co., Ltd., dba MISSJUNE, of China
Manufactured In: China
Recall number: 26-440
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Original text here: https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026/KMUYSL-Big-Red-Barn-Farm-Animal-Playsets-Recalled-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Injury-or-Death-from-Choking-Violates-Small-Parts-Ban-Sold-on-Amazon-by-MISSJUNE
CPSC Issues Recall Alert Involving FitRx SmartBell Quick-Select 5-52.5lbs Adjustable Dumbbells
WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued the following recall alert on April 23, 2026:
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Name of Product: FitRx SmartBell Quick-Select 5-52.5lbs Adjustable Dumbbells
Hazard: Weight plates can dislodge from the handle during use, posing a risk of serious injury due to impact hazard.
Remedy: Replace
Recall Date: April 23, 2026
Units: About 50,000
Consumer Contact: Tzumi Electronics toll free at 866-363-2237 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, email at smartbellrecall@tzumi.com or online at https://myfitrx.com/recall-52-lbs/ or https://fitrxrecovery.com/
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WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued the following recall alert on April 23, 2026:
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Name of Product: FitRx SmartBell Quick-Select 5-52.5lbs Adjustable Dumbbells
Hazard: Weight plates can dislodge from the handle during use, posing a risk of serious injury due to impact hazard.
Remedy: Replace
Recall Date: April 23, 2026
Units: About 50,000
Consumer Contact: Tzumi Electronics toll free at 866-363-2237 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, email at smartbellrecall@tzumi.com or online at https://myfitrx.com/recall-52-lbs/ or https://fitrxrecovery.com/and click on "Recalls" at the bottom of the page for more information.
Recall Details
Description: This recall involves FitRx SmartBell Quick-Select Adjustable Dumbbells 5-52.5lbs, model 8361, with serial numbers KK23288361 through KK23388361 and KK207608361 through KK21347836 only. The dumbbells were sold in black with red accents and include handles, weight plates and a molded plastic storage tray. The dumbbells adjust from 5 to 52.5 pounds, in 2.5- or 5-pound increments, by turning the handle to the desired weight, while the dumbbell is nested in the storage tray. The model number and serial number are located on the side of the unit's storage tray. "FitRx" is printed on the storage tray and on the dumbbell handles.
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the adjustable dumbbell and contact Tzumi Electronics for a free replacement of the dumbbell and tray. Consumers should write the word "Recalled" across the dumbbell tray using permanent spray paint or marker, register at https://myfitrx.com/recall-52-lbs/ and dispose of the product after registration is confirmed.
Incidents/Injuries: There have been more than 115 reports of weight plates dislodging during use, with at least six injuries, including broken toes, bruises, contusions and lacerations.
Sold At: Walmart stores nationwide and online at Walmart.com from January 2024 through November 2024 for about $100.
Importer(s): Tzumi Electronics Inc. of New York, New York
Manufactured In: China
Recall number: 26-431
Fast Track Recall
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Original text here: https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026/Tzumi-Electronics-Recalls-FitRx-SmartBell-Quick-Select-Adjustable-Dumbbells-Due-to-Serious-Injury-from-Impact-Hazard
CPSC Issues Recall Alert Involving Autobrush Sonic Pro Kids Toothbrush Boxes
WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued the following recall alert on April 23, 2026:
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Name of Product: Autobrush Sonic Pro Kids Toothbrush Boxes
Hazard: The recalled delivery boxes violate the mandatory standard for consumer products containing button cell and coin batteries because they contain a lithium coin battery that can be easily accessed by children, posing an ingestion hazard. The packaging also does not bear the required warning labels for products containing such batteries as required by Reese's Law. If button cell or coin batteries are swallowed,
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WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued the following recall alert on April 23, 2026:
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Name of Product: Autobrush Sonic Pro Kids Toothbrush Boxes
Hazard: The recalled delivery boxes violate the mandatory standard for consumer products containing button cell and coin batteries because they contain a lithium coin battery that can be easily accessed by children, posing an ingestion hazard. The packaging also does not bear the required warning labels for products containing such batteries as required by Reese's Law. If button cell or coin batteries are swallowed,the ingested batteries can cause serious injuries, including internal chemical burns, and death.
Remedy: Refund
Recall Date: April 23, 2026
Units: About 48,000
Consumer Contact: Autobrush toll-free at 844-656-3217 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, email at recall-support@autobrush.com, or online at tryautobrush.com/pages/recall or www.tryautobrush.com and click "Recall" at the bottom of the page for more information.
Recall Details
Description: This recall involves Autobrush's Sonic Pro Kids toothbrush boxes used as packaging for delivering children's toothbrushes. The electric toothbrushes consist of a u-shaped mouthpiece and a plastic base with an animal's face that matches the model's name: Unity the Unicorn, Lenni the Lion, Harley the Hippo and Danny the Dino. The light-up, musical toothbrushes have a built-in timer and three brush settings and were sold with a USB cable, a magnetic plug and decoration stickers inside a cardboard delivery box. The delivery box's white tray has a speaker with a coin cell battery on the underside. Additionally, "autobrush KIDS," the toothbrush's model name and an animal image that corresponds to the model are printed on the box.
Remedy: Consumers should stop using the boxes for the toothbrushes immediately, take them away from children and contact Autobrush for a $5 refund in the form of store credit. Consumers will be asked to write "Recalled" with permanent marker on the box and send a photo of the marked box to recall-support@autobrush.com. Consumers should then dispose of the box.
Note: Button cell batteries are hazardous. Batteries should be disposed of or recycled by following local hazardous waste procedures.
Incidents/Injuries: None reported
Sold Online At: TryAutobrush.com from March 2023 through December 2025 for between $85 and $90.
Importer(s): Lander Enterprises LLC, dba Autobrush, of Miami, Florida
Manufactured In: China
Recall number: 26-434
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Original text here: https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026/Autobrush-Recalls-Sonic-Pro-Childrens-Toothbrush-Boxes-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Injury-or-Death-from-Battery-Ingestion-Violates-Mandatory-Standard-for-Consumer-Products-with-Coin-Batteries
