It poses a choking hazard: The Ministry has banned the sale of a baby product

Turkey’s Ministry of Trade has banned the sale of a baby teether and ordered its withdrawal from the market after flagging it as a health risk through the ministry’s “Unsafe Product Information System,” which publicly lists products posing safety hazards. The ministry did not disclose the product’s brand or the specific defect in the announcement, but said the item carries a suffocation risk. The move matters because it forces the teether off store shelves and out of consumers’ hands, with the ministry’s unsafe-product list serving as the mechanism for alerting the public. What to watch next is whether the manufacturer or importer issues a recall notice and whether additional baby products are added to the system’s list.