The largest crib recall in history is underway following findings showing that a couple of kids have been killed by their cribs. Some one million cribs with older drop-side hardware were recalled following an announcement by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Simplicity for Children Inc., asking consumers with such cribs to return them.
The agency and the company are concerned with failure in the "drop-side" of the crib when it is incorrectly assembled. According to the CPSC, the drop-side failures result from both the hardware and crib design. These two faulty elements all too easily trick consumers into unintentionally installing the drop-side upside down. Thus installed, the hardware can weaken and cause the drop-side to detach from the crib, creating a gap in which infants can become entrapped and, there, suffocate. Thus far this failure has led to three infant deaths.
"According to First Candle, a leading promoter of infant health, infants who sleep in an adult bed with their parents are up to 40 times more likely to die through suffocation or other means than infants who sleep in a crib. Parents need to know that babies are
safest in a separate sleeping space designed for them," said Simplicity President Ken Waldman.
This is the largest recall of cribs in United States history. The cribs were made in China.
All of the cribs in question were manufactured by the first part of 2006, and none of the cribs that Simplicity is presently distributing to stores have this design problem.
Once again, a controversy is surrounding products made in China and sold for children in the United States.
However, the last time such a thing happened, which was with the recent recall of supposedly lead paint toxic toys made in China for the giant Mattell toy manufacturer, it ended up being a red herring. Today, Mattell issued a company apology to the entire nation of China when it became clear that the amounts of lead paint that were in the recalled toys did not exceed CPSC limits. Instead, the problem lay tiny magnets in the toys that children could swallow and get sick from - which was a design problem on Mattell's end, not China's.
Critics are concerned that the real motive behind at least a lot of the "China bashing" lies in the frustration that many American consumers feel over the outsourcing of so many formerly American jobs to the Asian nation, where the workers demand only a fraction of the salary that their American counterparts would, as well as with the United States' steep trade deficit with China which American officials blame largely on China's artificially depreciated currency.
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The agency and the company are concerned with failure in the "drop-side" of the crib when it is incorrectly assembled. According to the CPSC, the drop-side failures result from both the hardware and crib design. These two faulty elements all too easily trick consumers into unintentionally installing the drop-side upside down. Thus installed, the hardware can weaken and cause the drop-side to detach from the crib, creating a gap in which infants can become entrapped and, there, suffocate. Thus far this failure has led to three infant deaths.
"According to First Candle, a leading promoter of infant health, infants who sleep in an adult bed with their parents are up to 40 times more likely to die through suffocation or other means than infants who sleep in a crib. Parents need to know that babies are
safest in a separate sleeping space designed for them," said Simplicity President Ken Waldman.
This is the largest recall of cribs in United States history. The cribs were made in China.
All of the cribs in question were manufactured by the first part of 2006, and none of the cribs that Simplicity is presently distributing to stores have this design problem.
Once again, a controversy is surrounding products made in China and sold for children in the United States.
However, the last time such a thing happened, which was with the recent recall of supposedly lead paint toxic toys made in China for the giant Mattell toy manufacturer, it ended up being a red herring. Today, Mattell issued a company apology to the entire nation of China when it became clear that the amounts of lead paint that were in the recalled toys did not exceed CPSC limits. Instead, the problem lay tiny magnets in the toys that children could swallow and get sick from - which was a design problem on Mattell's end, not China's.
Critics are concerned that the real motive behind at least a lot of the "China bashing" lies in the frustration that many American consumers feel over the outsourcing of so many formerly American jobs to the Asian nation, where the workers demand only a fraction of the salary that their American counterparts would, as well as with the United States' steep trade deficit with China which American officials blame largely on China's artificially depreciated currency.
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