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KC Imports and Exports Recalls Mini Laser Pointer Keychains Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Battery Ingestion; Violate Mandatory Standard for Consumer Products with Button Cell Batteries

Source
CPSC Recall Data API
Source link
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026/KC-Imports-and-Exports-Recalls-Mini-Laser-Pointer-Keychains-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Injury-or-Death-from-Battery-Ingestion-Violate-Mandatory-Standard-for-Consumer-Products-with-Button-Cell-Batteries
Published
2026-08-06 00:00:00
Discovered by ProcIntel
2026-08-08 09:24:57
Category
Supplier Risk
Geography
United States
Organisations
Review status
Pending
Record type
REAL

Summary

This recall includes Laser & LED Light Mini Laser Pointer Keychains with model number KKC-6071. The model number is printed on the product packaging. The keychains were sold individually and packaged in a case of 24. The lasers come in various colors including blue, white, red, black, green and purple. Labeling wrapped around the laser is a silver sticker with black and silver lettering that reads: "HJ, DANGER, LASER RADIATION, AVOID DIRECT EYE EXPOSURE, LASER DIODE, Wavelength: 630-650nm Max. Output: <5mW, class IIIa LASER PRODUCT."

Procurement Relevance Gate

PASS — score 22.8/100 — evaluated 2026-08-08 09:24:57
Passed on: capacity_production_disruption, geographic_exposure (score 22.8/100, threshold 20.0).
  • capacity_production_disruption (weight 12) — matched on "output"
  • geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "1 linked geography"

Initial Signal Assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

A provisional, automatically-computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.

Initial Significance
2 · Moderate (26.0/100)
Initial Confidence
2 · Low (39.0/100)
Data sufficiency Whether enough structured evidence exists to trust this Signal's Initial Confidence reading. 'Sufficient' has no cap; 'Partial' and 'Insufficient' cap Confidence until more evidence is available; 'Not Assessed' means the Signal did not pass the Relevance Gate.
Insufficient
Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Geographic Breadth

Initial Significance Moderate (26.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (21.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points). Capped at 39 (Low) -- insufficient structured evidence to support a higher Confidence reading, regardless of source authority.

  • No likely Event type matched; a low contextual baseline was applied.
  • No eligible (non-geographic, non-fictional) entities were linked to this Signal.
  • no confidence-specificity evidence (actor entity, date, quantified value, or concrete verb)
  • no matched Event type
  • no actor entities (only attribution/metadata, if any)
  • no actor content-derived geography
  • single source only

Methodology signal_scoring_v1 — calculated 2026-08-08 09:24:57.