Recall of the Week: Fitness resistance tubes and kits due to cuts and bruises

About 229,000 fitness resistance tubes and kits manufactured by Dalps & Leisure Products Supply Corp. and imported by Dick's Sporting Goods are being recalled.

The plastic clip that attaches the resistance tube to the handle can break during use causing the tubing, handle, or fragments of the plastic clip to hit the user. This can cause cuts and bruises
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Dick's Sporting Goods has received four reports of cuts, bruises, and wearing of the skin.

The recall involves Fitness Gear and Fitness After 40 branded resistance tubes and adjustable resistance tube kits. The resistance tubes are yellow, blue, red, orange, gray, or black and are attached to handles with a plastic clip.

"Fitness Gear" is printed in red on the handles of the Fitness Gear-branded products. The Fitness After 40-branded resistance tubes have blue handles with thin green and red stripes.

The recalled model numbers are: FAF00004, STA00017, STA00018, STA00019, STA00020, STA00021, STA00022, STA00023, STA00063, STA00064, and STA00066. The model number can be found on the bottom of the package.

Manufactured in China and sold at Dick's Sporting Goods stores and online at www.dickssportinggoods.com from October 2009 through November 2010 for between $15 and $60.

Consumers should stop using the resistance tubes immediately and return the product to Dick's Sporting Goods for a store credit for the amount equal to the purchase price, the company and U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission advise consumers.

For additional information, contact Dick's Sporting Goods toll-free at 866-677-4771 between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, e-mail Customer.Service@dcsg.com, or visit the company's website at www.dickssportinggoods.com.