News tagged with 'Crib Recall'

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.

Consumer Product Safety Commission “concedes to not acting as quickly as it should regarding crib safety problems.”

In one of the biggest crib recalls in U.S. history, Stork Craft Manufacturing announced a voluntary recall of more than 2.1 million drop-side cribs.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is voluntarily recalling four million baby floats and 400,000 Simplicity Baby Cribs that are considered a safety risk to small children.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission, which oversaw more than 400 product recalls last year, is on the road to a major overhaul making it more effective and able to circumvent dangerous products before they make it into the marketplace and have to be recalled.