{"id":1063,"date":"2014-02-26T01:57:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T01:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2014-02-26T01:57:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T01:57:13","slug":"i-use-an-under-armour-baseball-cup-why-were-they-recalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=1063","title":{"rendered":"I use an Under-Armour baseball cup, why were they recalled?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;margin:5px;font-size:80%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"product recall\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3233\/2723532766_e12c6fa8a0_m.jpg\" width=\"160\"\/><br \/> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26601145@N04\/2723532766\">Public Citizen<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><i>Question by Burtonfan B<\/i>: I use an Under-Armour baseball cup, why were they recalled?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a baseball catcher who wear this cup, and I even took a hard hit two months ago in high school, but it provided the strength I needed. What is wrong with the product????<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by S J<\/i><br \/>Under Armour Recalls Athletic Cups Due To Injury Hazard<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8211; The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. <\/p>\n<p>Name of Product: Under Armour Athletic Cups<\/p>\n<p>Units: About 211,000<\/p>\n<p>Importer: Under Armour Inc, of Baltimore, Maryland<\/p>\n<p>Hazard: The cups can break if hit, posing a risk of serious injury hazard to athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Incidents\/Injuries: Under Armour has received five reports of cups breaking, including an injury involving cuts and bruising.<\/p>\n<p>Description: This recall involves all athletic cups that have the Under Armour logo, including adult, teen, and youth sizes. The cups were sold individually and as part of a set with compression, slider, or jock shorts.<\/p>\n<p>Sold at: Sporting good stores and Under Armour outlets nationwide and at www.underarmour.com from January 2006 through March 2009 for about .<\/p>\n<p>Manufactured in: China<\/p>\n<p>Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the athletic cup and contact Under Armour for a  voucher for use online or at any Under Armour specialty or outlet store.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Add your own answer in the comments!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Public Citizen Question by Burtonfan B: I use an Under-Armour baseball cup, why were they recalled? I&#8217;m a baseball catcher who wear this cup, and I even took a hard hit two months ago in high school, but it provided the strength I needed. What is wrong with the product???? Best answer: Answer by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2748,42,67,2747,157],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recalls","tag-baseball","tag-recalled","tag-they","tag-underarmour","tag-were"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}