New Safety Standards to Keep your New Baby Safer in the New Year
by CPSC Blogger bassinets cradles cribs new baby nursery nursery injury report SafeSleep SafeToSleep safety Standards StrollersExpecting a new baby in the New Year? Overwhelmed with where to begin? Well, there is exciting news about nursery products. Over the past few years the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has strengthened nursery product standards to ensure safer products in the marketplace.
Here’s what CPSC has been doing to help keep babies safe:
CRIBS: All cribs sold in the U.S. with a manufacture date after June 28, 2011 must meet new federal (…)
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Dec 29
Additional Injuries Prompt Maclaren USA to Reannounce the November 2009 Stroller Recall
by CPSC Blogger Amputation Fingertip Maclaren StrollersMaclaren stroller owners: Pay attention!
Due to additional reports of incidents, CPSC and Maclaren are reannouncing a recall of all of Maclaren USA’s single and double umbrella strollers sold prior to November 2009 – 1 million in total. The problem is that a child can get his/her finger caught in the hinge mechanism when you are opening or closing the stroller.
Maclaren has received a total of 149 reports of incidents with the strollers, including 37 reported injuries that occurred after (…)
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May 12
Graco Recalls Nearly 2 Million Strollers
by CPSC Blogger baby graco metrolite quattro strangle strangulation stroller StrollersGraco is recalling nearly 2 million older strollers – The Quattro and MetroLite – because children can become trapped in and strangle in the strollers.
The strollers were manufactured before December 2007, before the adoption ofa new standard requiring larger stroller openings that prevent children from becoming trapped.
CPSC and Graco know of four infants who strangled and died in the strollers between 2003 and 2005.
Children, particularly babies younger than 12 months old who (…)
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Oct 20