About 2,140 ONTHEWEI baby bath seats are under recall in the United States because they are unstable and can tip over while a baby sits in them. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the action on Oct. 8, 2026 as recall number 27-018, saying the seats fail the federal standard written for exactly this product. The seats were sold on Amazon.com, and the agency lists a drowning hazard.
No incident has been reported to the agency or the company so far. The recall rests on the product failing the mandatory standard, not on a baby being hurt, which is how the CPSC handles many violations found before anyone is injured.
The ONTHEWEI MY002 seat and where it sold
According to the CPSC recall notice, the recalled seats come in gray, pink, blue and mist green. Each has detachable restraint arms and suction cups on the underside. A label on the back reads “Model No: MY002” and “Date of manufacture: 2026/1/10,” which is how an owner can tell whether the seat in the bathroom is one of the roughly 2,140.
The seats were sold on Amazon.com in April 2026 for about $40 to $50. The firm behind them is Hubei Youhong Trading Co., Ltd., doing business as ONTHEWEI, of China, and the seats were manufactured in China. The window is short: roughly six months passed between the April sales and the October recall, which means every unit was bought recently and many are likely still in regular use.
Federal standard 16 CFR part 1215 and the stability requirement
The rule the seats violate is the CPSC’s mandatory standard for infant bath seats, codified at 16 CFR part 1215. That part requires every seat to meet the incorporated industry specification, ASTM F1967-24, formally titled the Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Infant Bath Seats. The regulation itself does not spell out the technical tests; those sit inside the ASTM document.
The agency’s business guidance on infant bath seats lists the performance areas the standard covers: stability, the restraint system, static load, suction cups, leg openings and installation components. Under the guidance, a seat is defined as a product that “provides support, at a minimum, to the front and back of a seated infant during bathing by a caregiver,” and infant bath tubs that hold water are excluded. Stability is on the list because a seat that tips can put a baby’s face into the water, while the caregiver is, by design, only a step away.
The guidance also notes that a seat must meet the version of the ASTM standard tied to its manufacture or import date. A seat made on or after January 4, 2025 must meet ASTM F1967-24, a detail that matters here because the label on the recalled seats cites a 2026 manufacture date.
Drowning risk and the destroy-and-photograph remedy
The CPSC says the seats “can tip over during use,” which creates a risk of drowning. The scale of that hazard in the home is documented in the agency’s 2012 drowning release, which counted 434 fatalities among children under five from 2006 to 2010, about 87 a year. Of those victims, 82 percent were under two, and 81 percent of the incidents involved bathtubs or bath-related products.
The remedy is a full refund, but it comes with a condition. Owners must write “RECALLED” on the front of the seat in permanent marker, remove the back rest and arm restraints, cut the three suction cups on the underside, and email a photo of the destroyed seat to [email protected]. The company, not a retailer, handles the refund.
The agency’s standing advice from that same release is plain: always keep a young child within arm’s reach in a bathtub, and do not leave a baby in the tub under the care of another child. Whether a seat is recalled or not, the CPSC treats a bath seat as a support for a caregiver who is present, not as a substitute for one.
The practical gap in the paperwork is worth spelling out. A seat sold in April 2026 and made in January 2026 falls squarely under the newest version of the standard, so the failure the CPSC describes is not a legacy problem with an old design. It is a current-production seat that reached American buyers through an online marketplace without meeting a rule that has applied to bath seats since December 2010, the date from which part 1215 covers every seat made or imported into the country.
Anyone who owns one of these seats and wants to tell the agency what happened can file a report at SaferProducts.gov, the CPSC’s public database of consumer-submitted product incidents. The agency’s general hotline is 800-638-2772, while refund requests go to the company by email.
The recall notice does not say how many of the 2,140 seats have reached buyers who have already discarded them, nor whether Amazon has removed the listing. The CPSC’s page lists the ONTHEWEI email address as the only consumer contact.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.
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