Six Kozy and Nido Models, No Refund in the Importer's Notice, and a Long Second-Hand Tail
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On October 22, 2026, Health Canada recalled Simmons Kozy and Nido baby nests and loungers after finding they do not meet Canada's Cribs, Cradles and Bassinets Regulations. The importer, Jupiter Industries of Mississauga, reported 25,088 units sold across the country between January 2022 and September 2026. The instruction to owners is blunt: stop using the product now, and get rid of it so it cannot be used again.
That number deserves a second look. This is not a product that sold for a season and vanished. It sold for almost five years, through mainstream retailers, in neutral colours that suit any nursery and any sibling. Plenty of these nests are no longer in daily use. They are folded into closet bins, waiting in basements for the next baby, or listed on a marketplace page for $20. Many recalls end at the checkout counter. This one is going to run through Canadian storage rooms for a while.
This report covers what was recalled and why, how to confirm whether the nest in your home is affected, what the remedy actually is (and isn't), and why the second-hand angle carries legal weight as well as a safety one.
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The Health Canada recall notice (RA-82829) covers two product lines in six colourways: the Kozy in grey and taupe, and the Nido in ivory, taupe, coconut milk and moonbeam. Health Canada's finding is that the nests and loungers do not meet the federal crib, cradle and bassinet rules, creating the potential for fall hazards. The products were manufactured in China and imported by Jasztex Fibers Inc., which does business as Jupiter Industries. As of October 19, the company had received no reports of incidents or injuries in Canada. That is a status report, not a safety rating; recalls of this kind exist precisely to remove a hazard before the first report arrives.
The government notice stops at "does not meet the Regulations." The importer's own consumer notice, dated October 19, goes further. Jupiter's notice says the Kozy and Nido nests fail the side-height requirement in section 39(b) of the Regulations, and that the resulting fall hazard can lead to serious injury when the nest is used on an elevated surface. That second clause matters. It describes exactly how these products tend to get used: on a bed, a sofa or a table, where a baby who rolls over a low edge has somewhere to fall.
The measurement itself is simple. Under section 39 of the Cribs, Cradles and Bassinets Regulations, every stationary side of a bassinet must rise at least 230 mm above the surface the baby lies on. That is about 23 cm of wall, roughly the height of a standard sheet of letter paper stood on its long edge. A soft nest with a plush, rounded bolster can look enclosed and still fall short of that line.
A nest does not look like a bassinet, so the regulatory link can seem odd. It isn't. The Regulations define a bassinet by function and size: a product whose primary purpose is to provide sleeping accommodation for a child, with sides to confine the child, and a sleeping surface of 4,000 cm² or less. A compact padded nest marketed for lounging and rest falls inside that definition, and Health Canada has said explicitly since 2025 that baby nests and loungers sold in Canada must comply with these rules.
Identification is the step most owners will get stuck on, because the obvious evidence is gone. The box went to recycling in 2022. The receipt is lost or was a gift receipt from someone else. Neither matters much here.
Health Canada says the model number is printed on the warning label on the product itself. Jupiter's notice is more precise: the product information is on the warning and product labels attached to the back of the item. Turn the nest over, find those labels, and compare the number against the table below. The UPC is a secondary check. Health Canada notes the UPC came on the packaging, so it is only useful if you kept the box.
Two further clues can help if a label has been cut off or washed illegible. The first is the brand: these were sold under the Simmons name as the Kozy and the Nido. The second is where they came from. According to the importer, the nests were sold by Walmart Canada, Toys "R" Us, Winners, Canadian Tire, Best Buy and specialty juvenile retailers across Canada. Health Canada's notice names no retailers at all, so that list exists only in the company's document. If you received a Simmons-branded nest as a shower gift between 2022 and this fall, the odds are reasonable that it came through one of those stores.
If the label is gone and you cannot rule the product out, treat it as recalled. The cost of a wrong "probably fine" is carried by the baby, not the owner.
Children's products recalls cluster around the same rooms of the house, and this one is not the only recent notice affecting a nursery. Homeowner.ca also covered the recall of Vevor retractable baby gates over an entrapment hazard.
Identification is the step most owners will get stuck on, because the obvious evidence is gone. The box went to recycling in 2022. The receipt is lost or was a gift receipt from someone else. Neither matters much here.
Health Canada says the model number is printed on the warning label on the product itself. Jupiter's notice is more precise: the product information is on the warning and product labels attached to the back of the item. Turn the nest over, find those labels, and compare the number against the table below. The UPC is a secondary check. Health Canada notes the UPC came on the packaging, so it is only useful if you kept the box.
Two further clues can help if a label has been cut off or washed illegible. The first is the brand: these were sold under the Simmons name as the Kozy and the Nido. The second is where they came from. According to the importer, the nests were sold by Walmart Canada, Toys "R" Us, Winners, Canadian Tire, Best Buy and specialty juvenile retailers across Canada. Health Canada's notice names no retailers at all, so that list exists only in the company's document. If you received a Simmons-branded nest as a shower gift between 2022 and this fall, the odds are reasonable that it came through one of those stores.
If the label is gone and you cannot rule the product out, treat it as recalled. The cost of a wrong "probably fine" is carried by the baby, not the owner.
Children's products recalls cluster around the same rooms of the house, and this one is not the only recent notice affecting a nursery. Homeowner.ca also covered the recall of Vevor retractable baby gates over an entrapment hazard.
Health Canada's instruction is a single sentence: immediately stop using the recalled product and safely dispose of it in such a way that it cannot be used again. There is no return path, no repair kit and no replacement program in the government notice. The notice points owners to Jupiter Industries for more information, by phone at 1-800-465-5795 (8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET, Monday to Friday) or by email at customerservice@jupiterindustries.com.
It is natural to assume that call leads to a refund. As of publication, the company's own notice does not support that assumption. Jupiter's consumer recall notice repeats the stop-use instruction, tells owners the product should be "safely discarded or destroyed," and offers an email address and phone number for further information. It describes no refund, store credit, replacement or proof-of-destruction process. That absence is a fact about the document as published on October 22; it is not a promise that nothing will follow. Calling to ask is entirely reasonable. Calling while the nest stays in use is not. Nothing in either notice permits continued use while you wait for an answer.
The distinction stands out because disposal and refunds often travel together in this category. When a batch of lounger recalls ran through 2025, some came with money back. The March 2025 Style Life Eleven lounger recall told owners to contact Wayfair for instructions on disposing of the product in exchange for a full refund. The Simmons recall, at least as published, is a disposal-only action.
Do not keep using the nest "just until the company calls back." Both Health Canada and the importer say use should stop immediately, and neither notice offers an exception for owners waiting on a remedy.
Neither notice prescribes a method. The standard they set is the outcome: the nest must not be usable by anyone after it leaves your hands. That rules out the familiar shortcuts. A nest left intact at the curb, dropped in a clothing donation bin, or set out on the "free" table at a garage sale can be picked up and used by the next family. That is precisely the result the instruction exists to prevent. If you are unsure how to make the product unusable, the importer's information line is the authoritative place to ask.
Disposal-only recalls are less common than refund or repair recalls, but they are not new on this beat. The same logic applied when Health Canada advised owners to dispose of an uncertified triple-detector alarm whose seller would not run a recall at all.
The recall notice closes with a sentence that changes how Canadian households should treat stored baby gear: the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act prohibits recalled products from being redistributed, sold or even given away in Canada. That is Health Canada's own summary in its recall notice. The statute itself is narrower in its wording, with section 8 of the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act barring anyone from advertising or selling a consumer product they know is the subject of a recall because it is a danger to human health or safety.
The give-away point is not a stretch, though. Health Canada's guidance on second-hand products states that safety requirements do not distinguish between new and used products, and that anyone who sells, distributes or gives away a non-compliant consumer product is breaking the law in Canada. The same guidance says a seller is responsible for a used product's safety even when it is being given away for free.
Put those together with a 25,088-unit, five-year sales run and the exposure becomes concrete. A recalled Kozy or Nido can sit in any of these places:
Each of those is now a problem in two directions. The person passing it on is distributing a recalled product. The person receiving it is bringing home a nest that Health Canada has told owners to destroy. Health Canada's guidance names buy-nothing groups and online marketplaces specifically as channels where recalled products resurface.
If you gave or sold a Kozy or Nido nest to someone since 2022, the most useful thing you can do is tell them. Send the model numbers in the table above and the recall link. The new owner is in the same position as anyone else: check the label, stop using it if it matches, and dispose of it so it cannot be used again. If you have one listed for sale right now, take the listing down.
The recall notice closes with a sentence that changes how Canadian households should treat stored baby gear: the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act prohibits recalled products from being redistributed, sold or even given away in Canada. That is Health Canada's own summary in its recall notice. The statute itself is narrower in its wording, with section 8 of the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act barring anyone from advertising or selling a consumer product they know is the subject of a recall because it is a danger to human health or safety.
The give-away point is not a stretch, though. Health Canada's guidance on second-hand products states that safety requirements do not distinguish between new and used products, and that anyone who sells, distributes or gives away a non-compliant consumer product is breaking the law in Canada. The same guidance says a seller is responsible for a used product's safety even when it is being given away for free.
Put those together with a 25,088-unit, five-year sales run and the exposure becomes concrete. A recalled Kozy or Nido can sit in any of these places:
Each of those is now a problem in two directions. The person passing it on is distributing a recalled product. The person receiving it is bringing home a nest that Health Canada has told owners to destroy. Health Canada's guidance names buy-nothing groups and online marketplaces specifically as channels where recalled products resurface.
If you gave or sold a Kozy or Nido nest to someone since 2022, the most useful thing you can do is tell them. Send the model numbers in the table above and the recall link. The new owner is in the same position as anyone else: check the label, stop using it if it matches, and dispose of it so it cannot be used again. If you have one listed for sale right now, take the listing down.
Buying a used baby nest this fall? Check the label on the back against the six model numbers before money changes hands. Recalled products often circulate second-hand long after a notice is published.
This recall does not stand alone. In August 2025, Health Canada published a public advisory on baby nests and loungers stating that these products must comply with the Cribs, Cradles and Bassinets Regulations, and that the department was running a sampling and evaluation program to check products on the Canadian market. That advisory listed eight recalls and warnings issued between March and September 2025, mostly small-volume online sellers. The largest, the BChic and Chicure nests from Chic Baby, involved 3,007 units.
Against that backdrop, the Simmons recall is a different order of magnitude. At 25,088 units, it is roughly eight times larger than the biggest action on the 2025 list, and it involves a recognizable brand sold through national chains rather than a marketplace storefront. As of October 22, the advisory list (last updated in September 2025) does not yet include the Simmons recall, so the individual recall notice is the authoritative reference.
The advisory also carries a broader instruction worth repeating once: if you own a baby nest that is not on Health Canada's recall list, the department advises that it not be used as a sleep surface. And Health Canada reminds caregivers that the safest place for a baby to sleep is on their back on a firm, flat surface intended for sleep.
Fall hazards in the nursery are a recurring theme across this year's notices, extending well beyond infant products. Homeowner.ca reported on the Universal Broadmoore canopy bed recall after collapsing beams caused injuries.
This recall does not stand alone. In August 2025, Health Canada published a public advisory on baby nests and loungers stating that these products must comply with the Cribs, Cradles and Bassinets Regulations, and that the department was running a sampling and evaluation program to check products on the Canadian market. That advisory listed eight recalls and warnings issued between March and September 2025, mostly small-volume online sellers. The largest, the BChic and Chicure nests from Chic Baby, involved 3,007 units.
Against that backdrop, the Simmons recall is a different order of magnitude. At 25,088 units, it is roughly eight times larger than the biggest action on the 2025 list, and it involves a recognizable brand sold through national chains rather than a marketplace storefront. As of October 22, the advisory list (last updated in September 2025) does not yet include the Simmons recall, so the individual recall notice is the authoritative reference.
The advisory also carries a broader instruction worth repeating once: if you own a baby nest that is not on Health Canada's recall list, the department advises that it not be used as a sleep surface. And Health Canada reminds caregivers that the safest place for a baby to sleep is on their back on a firm, flat surface intended for sleep.
Fall hazards in the nursery are a recurring theme across this year's notices, extending well beyond infant products. Homeowner.ca reported on the Universal Broadmoore canopy bed recall after collapsing beams caused injuries.
Most soft nursery goods are bought once, used for a few months and never thought about again, which is exactly why a recall can miss the households that need it. The practical fix is to let the notices come to you. Health Canada's free recalls and safety alerts subscription sends email notices either as a daily digest or immediately as they post. You choose the categories. This recall was filed under Household items in the consumer products group, and Toys and games is the other category most relevant to families with young children. The service is email only; text messages are not supported.
Health Canada also asks consumers to report any health or safety incident involving this nest, or any other consumer product, through its Consumer Product Incident Report Form. Reports feed the department's view of which products need attention next.
Other recalls this year have reached into bedrooms through very different products. One recent example: an uncertified smoke and CO alarm sold to 665 Canadian homes.
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Ryan is the founder of Homeowner.ca and a proud Canadian homeowner based in Guelph, Ontario. Over his 25-year career in digital publishing, he has focused on transforming complex information into clear, practical guidance that helps people make confident, well-informed decisions.
