Editing Cabbage Patch Kids (section)

=== Product safety ===
One of Mattel's line of Cabbage Patch Kids dolls, the Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kids, was designed to "eat" plastic snacks. The mechanism enabling this was a pair of one-way smooth metal rollers behind plastic lips. The snacks would exit the doll's back and "magically" appear into a backpack. The mechanism could be de-activated by releasing the backpack.<ref>{{cite news|title=$40 Refund Is Offered for Hair-Eating Dolls|work=The New York Times|date=1997-01-07|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/07/us/40-refund-is-offered-for-hair-eating-dolls.html?scp=2&sq=cabbage%20patch%20kids&st=cse|access-date=2010-08-07}}</ref> They were extremely popular during Christmas 1996. The line was voluntarily withdrawn from the market following an agreement between Mattel and the [[Consumer Product Safety Commission]] in January 1997 following several incidents where children got their fingers or hair stuck in the dolls' mouths leading to safety warnings from Connecticut's [[consumer protection]] commissioner, Mark Shiffrin.<ref name=cpsc>{{cite web|url=http://www.cpsc.gov/CPSCPUB/PREREL/PRHTML97/97055.html|title=Mattel and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Announce Voluntary Refund Program for Cabbage Patch Kids & Snacktime Kids Dolls|date=1997-01-06|access-date=February 22, 2008|publisher=United States [[Consumer Product Safety Commission]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220001659/http://www.cpsc.gov/CPSCPUB/PREREL/PRHTML97/97055.html|archive-date=2008-02-20|url-status=dead}}</ref>