Monkey Plush

The eyes, nose and mouth are embroidered rather than plastic, the rattle is sewn in rather than clipped on, and the overalls are part of the toy — so there is no detachable component by design. EN 71 certification, whose mechanical part covers attachment tension and seam strength on plush, is asserted for the brand's plush and repeated by an independent children's-toy safety guide.

Apple Park states that all of its toys are mandatorily tested and bear ASTM F963 and EN 71 safety certification, and an independent doll-and-plush safety guide describes the brand's plush as fully EN 71 certified. We queried the CPSC recall register and found a single 2013 filing against the brand, for children's loungewear flammability, and nothing involving its plush toys.

Fibre content is fully specified for the finished toy: a 100% organic cotton knit shell, organic hypoallergenic corn-fibre fill and organic chambray overalls, with the cotton GOTS-certified, the dyes low-impact, azo-free and OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100, and no flame-retardant materials used. The GOTS and OEKO-TEX claims sit on the cotton and the dyes rather than on the assembled plush.

No age grade and no small-parts warning are published for this monkey plush, even though the rest of the product detail is unusually complete — materials, dyes, fill and construction are all specified, and the design itself carries no loose small parts, with embroidered eyes, nose and mouth and a rattle sewn inside.

We queried the full CPSC recall corpus — 9,944 records spanning 1973 to August 2026 — and found a single entry for this brand: a 2013 recall of children's loungewear for violating the federal flammability standard. That was apparel rather than toys, thirteen years ago, and nothing has been filed since against the plush or doll lines.

Apple Park publishes no age grade at all for this monkey plush — the one thing this criterion turns on — while retail listings for the same line describe these organic cotton toys as baby toys for newborns and infants, and sibling rattle items in the line carry an explicit 0m+ grade in those retail listings. That gap is still open: the retail newborn language stands with nothing on the brand's side to anchor or bound it, and no safe-sleep note accompanies a rattle plush being sold to infants.

This monkey plush is given as machine wash cold, tumble dry low, no bleach, no iron — genuine machine washability rather than surface-wash-only. The caveat is an inconsistency in the brand's own care guidance: it elsewhere recommends spot cleaning or hand washing for its organic cotton and corn-fibre toys and places rattle toys in a surface-wash-only group, so it is unclear whether a plush with a sewn-in rattle should be machine washed or only surface cleaned, and nothing is said about shape or pile retention after washing.

The cotton in this plush is GOTS-certified organic, the dyes are OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100 low-impact and azo-free, and Apple Park states its toys are tested to and bear ASTM F963 and EN 71 safety certification — an independent children's-toy safety guide describes the brand's plush as fully EN 71 certified. The GOTS and OEKO-TEX claims attach to the cotton and the dyes rather than to the assembled toy.

Materials are disclosed component by component — 100% organic cotton knit shell, organic corn-fibre fill, organic chambray overalls, and a sewn-in BPA-free, phthalate-free rattle whose casing is HIPS with GPPS beads — and the toys are designed in San Francisco and manufactured in China. The factory or supplier is not named and no warranty period is stated.