Primark has recalled about 2,100 black “101 Dalmatians” faux-leather children’s coin purses sold for about $9 at its stores in the Northeast, Florida, Maryland and Illinois. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission posted the recall on October 15 because the purses contain higher levels of phthalates, a group of chemicals. Shoppers who bought one can return it to a Primark store for a full refund.
Model 2595301: the one purse in this recall
The CPSC recall notice, number 27-028, covers a single product. The coin purse is black and has a picture of a dalmatian and the words “101 Dalmatians” printed on the front. The model number, 2595301, is on the product tag attached to the zip puller.
The importer is Primark U.S. Corp. of Boston, Massachusetts, and the purses were made in China. About 2,100 were sold from March 2026 through June 2026 at about $9 each. At that price, the whole run comes to roughly $18,900 in sales, which is simple arithmetic from the notice and not a figure CPSC states.
That is a small recall. CPSC does not name individual Northeast states, so a shopper in that region cannot tell from the notice which stores sold the purse. The notice limits the sales area to the Northeast, Florida, Maryland and Illinois, and no other part of the country is listed.
The timing is worth a look. The last sales named in the notice were in June, and the recall was posted on October 15, about four months later. A purse bought in the spring may have spent the whole summer in a child’s bag.
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What the phthalate finding means for children
CPSC says the coin purses contain higher phthalate concentration levels. The agency says phthalates can be harmful if young children are exposed to enough of them, including by ingestion. The recall title names the risk of ingestion alongside the phthalate levels.
The notice reports no incidents or injuries. This is a recall on chemical content, not a response to a child who was hurt. That makes the stop-using instruction the main safety step: the notice tells consumers to stop using the coin purses immediately.
A faux-leather coin purse with a cartoon dog on it is an item a child can hold, carry and put in a mouth. The notice does not say which phthalates were found or at what concentration, and it gives no percentage. Readers who want more detail have only the recall number to ask Primark about.
Where the money comes back: the register, not the mailbox
The remedy is a refund in a store. CPSC says consumers should return the coin purses to a Primark store for a full refund in the original form of payment. A purse paid for with a card goes back onto that card, and one paid for in cash is refunded the same way.
The notice does not say that a receipt is required. It says nothing about a mail-in option or a prepaid label either, so the in-store return is the route the notice describes. For a $9 item, the cost of a trip to a store is the real question for some shoppers.
Primark can be reached at 617-946-3236 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or online at primark.com/recall. Calling first is sensible for a shopper who is not sure a nearby store is taking returns. The notice gives no deadline for the refund.
The phone line runs on weekdays only, with a window of nine hours Eastern time. Illinois shoppers are an hour behind Eastern time, so the line closes at 4 p.m. there. Anyone who works days may find the online page at primark.com/recall easier to use.
A small recall, kept at its real size
About 2,100 purses is a very small number next to the hundreds of thousands of units in some recalls. It would be wrong to read the Primark notice as a sign of a wider problem with 101 Dalmatians merchandise or with the retailer’s other children’s goods. The notice covers model 2595301 and nothing else.
Parents who are unsure about another product can check recalls at cpsc.gov, or call the agency’s consumer hotline at 800-638-2772. Reports of unsafe products go through SaferProducts.gov. A parent who already threw the purse away should still contact Primark rather than assume the refund is lost.
The refund is also the one point where the notice is quiet. It does not say what happens to a purse bought as a gift, or to one whose buyer paid with a gift card. Primark’s phone line is the only place the notice points for questions like those.
Taking a card statement or a store receipt to the return is easy to do. It gives the cashier something to match to the original payment, and it gives the shopper a record that the money came back. A purse that cost $9 is a small amount, but a refund that never lands is still a loss.
Holding a $9 Dalmatians coin purse receipt?
A $9 refund is easy to let slide, and a store return that goes unrecorded is easy to lose track of. With no deadline in the notice and a refund that goes back to the original form of payment, the only proof it arrived is the line on a card statement.
This turn goes from the recall to the habit of tracking refunds. The Settlement & Refund Recovery System is not a product-safety guide, but it includes a claim log and payment tracker and the four-date rule for reading a notice. The 5-tab Excel tracker is built so a $9 refund and a larger one sit in the same place.
Get the refund tracker that follows a Primark coin purse refund back to the original card →
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This article was produced with AI assistance and edited for accuracy against the sources linked above.
