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Product name "Nuk" Gum Massager.
Description The "Nuk" Gum Massager is a 3-piece Toothbrush Trainer Set and bears the item code #02586 on the top flap of the package. This product is in a package of 3 brushes designed to help train children in the use of a toothbrush. It has a soft rubber tip with rubber bristles which is intended for use by children between 7 and 11 months of age with adult supervision. The first massaging brush is a bullet-shaped massaging tool with soft rubber fins and projections. 
Problem Only the first massaging brush has a tip which can separate from the handle presenting a possible choking and/or suffocation hazard to young children. 
Distribution Sold in retail stores. 
Company Reliance Products, 108 Mason St., P.O. Box 1220, Woonsocket, Rhode Island 82895; (800) 556-6508. 
Dates sold May 1980 to May 1982. 
Date posted 12/27/2001 
 

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