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A suburban Southwestern couple raises the alarm about a popular baby product. They say it almost caused their child to choke. Now, they are sharing their experience to warn other families.

The product is a silicone food bowl for babies and children made by the PandaEar company.

It’s even marketed as “safe” for kids, but what one suburban mom experienced is something no other parent wants to go through.

“Terrible – it was very scary,” said Angela Kendall, who lives in Joliet.

There were heart-stopping moments where Joliet mom won’t soon forget.

“I could hear her struggling a little bit,” Kendall recalled.

About two weeks ago, Angela Kendall was feeding her 13-month-old daughter, Ellie.

“She went to, what I thought, lick her bowl, which I thought was adorable, so I pulled out my phone quickly because I thought (my husband) was going to like that,” she explained.

However, a bad moment turned serious.

Ellie’s food was in one of PandaEar’s silicone bowls. It’s supposed to stick to the surface of a table or high chair, but Kendall showed FOX 32 Chicago how easily it can slide off.

Instantly, she jumped to help her child.

“Even scarier, when I went to pull it out, it was actually there, like I had to look at it to pull it out,” Kendall added.

FOX 32 Chicago reached out to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) asking about the bowl.

The CPSC responded, saying it couldn’t comment on a company’s specific product, but pointed us in the direction www.SaferProducts.gov.

There, FOX 32 discovered a consumer complaint documenting an almost identical incident.

The report was filed on September 22nd and published by the CPSC on October 9th. It depicts an 18-month-old using a silicone bowl made by PandaEar.

The parent explained that the bowl “sucked onto her 18-month-old daughter’s face.” The father also wrote: “He couldn’t breathe.”

“It could have been 100 percent fatal,” Kendall said of her terrifying ordeal.

“We just want to make sure that everybody is aware that this can happen and that it doesn’t end up in a much worse scenario for anybody else,” said Bill Kendall, Angela’s husband.

Similar reports circulated on Facebook, including a post by Emily Flores, a woman from Columbus, Ohio.

“We had dinner like a normal night,” Flores said.

In March, she said her 15-month-old son was using a PandaEar bowl.

“He took the bowl to lick it and when he put the bowl to his face he inhaled and it stayed around his nose and mouth,” Flores said.

Flores and her fiance reacted immediately.

“I actually had to scrape my fingernails under where his cheek was and get the bowl out,” Flores said. “He was hysterical, like he was gasping for air because it was covering his nose and mouth.”

Both Flores and Kendall contacted PandaEar with their concerns.

“I sent them a long message about what happened and how I was worried about other kids,” Flores said.

No family heard.

FOX 32 Chicago made multiple attempts to reach PandaEar via email, Instagram and Facebook, but did not receive a response.

If, as a consumer, you come across a dangerous product, you are encouraged to report it www.SaferProducts.gov.

The public can also use the site to search for products that you have at home or are thinking of buying.