Expect manufacturers to phase-out the drop-side crib after recalls and child deaths and strangulations. The new head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission says the agency is not working as swiftly as it could on defective cribs, many of which remain on the market.
Simplicity is recalling a 4-in-1 and 3-in-1 bassinet after two infants strangled between folding cloth and the bars. You are encouraged to return the item to the store where you purchased it. Unfortunately, the majority of used and dangerous baby items remain in circulation.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission says look out for nursery equipment. Cribs, high chairs, child walkers were involve in more than 66,000 injuries in 2006, a marked increase from the year before.
55 complaints, 7 entrapments and three deaths weren’t enough to recall defective Simplicity Cribs, until the eve of a reporter’s expose…. Maurice Possley has been a reporter at the Chicago Tribune since 1984. Recently, when he
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