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Kids in Danger: Dangerous Nursery Products Top 2009 Recall List
Filed under: Health & Safety: Babies, Alerts & Recalls
Demonstration of crib danger. Credit: CPSC
Recalls of strollers, cribs, high chairs and other nursery products pushed the nursery product category to the top category of recalled products for the first time, the advocacy group Kids in Danger announced.
In a just-released report analyzing recalls conducted by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the group found that 40 nursery product recalls involved more than 21 million units tied to 198 injuries and nine deaths.
"And those incidents include only those already reported at the time of the recall," Kids in Danger executive director Nancy Cowles said in a statement emailed to WalletPop.com. "More needs to be done to protect children from these hazards."
Among the biggest recalls:
- 4 million units of Aqua-Leisure inflatable baby floats (the leg straps can tear and cause a baby go under water)
- 2.1 million Stork Craft drop-side cribs (entrapment and fall dangers)
- 643,000 Evenflo Envision high chairs (risk of falls and choking)
To read the rest of this story or learn more about dangerous products, visit the Consumer Ally page on our sister site, WalletPop.com.
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10-16-2010 @ 12:15AM
MICHELE said...WHY DO THEY KEEP CHANGING THINGS 21 YEARS AGO MY SON A SIDS SURVIVOR I WAS TOLD LAY HIM ON HIS STOMACH NOW ITS LAY THEM ON THEIR BACKS IM FINDING IT HARD TO DO SINCE I WAS TAUGHT THE OTHER WAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY SPIT UP HE ALSO HAD REFLUX ,AND NOW ITS THE BUMPER PADS WELL IF YOU DONT USE THEM THEN THE BABY EITHER WACKS HER HEAD OR GETS CAUGHT BETWEEN THE BARS AND WHY ARE THEY SELLING THE BUMPER PADS IF THEYRE SUPPOSABLY NOT SAFE EITHER WAY IT JUST TELLS YOU WE NEED TO CHECK ON THE BABIES OFTEN WHEN THEYRE SLEEPING AND WHERE.
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