Nearly 100 infants have been hurt falling out of Bumbo Baby Seats, a total that has grown since their recall in 2007, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Tuesday — issuing a warning about the danger. At least 45 babies that have gotten hurt falling from the chairs while they were above ground level. The injured babies ranged in age from 3 months to 10 months old....
Spin Master, distributor of Aqua Dots — a toy recalled after it was learned they turned toxic when wet following the hospitalization of two toddlers — agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle charges the company failed to report a known hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. About a dozen children are believed to have been sickened by Aqua Dots. “To have a toxic chemical on a toy...
An analysis of the first six months of entries in the government-run database of product hazards reported by the public uncovered a disturbing statistic: About one of every seven complaints was about a product already recalled. The report by the safety advocacy group Kids in Danger highlights how many recalls are not only not acted on by consumers, but are completely missed. Kids in Danger analyzed more than 2,400...
A quarter-million General Electric food processors sold only at Walmart stores are being recalled because of two defects that have started fires and caused consumers to get cut, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. The Chinese-made food processors sold between September 2009 and February 2011 for about $50 have led to complaints from dozens of consumers about the product’s hazards. Walmart told the CPSC that it...
The National Consumers League is urging the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to require table saws to be made more safely after a recent report found that table saw injuries have been increasing steadily over the past decade to about 40,000 a year. “Table saws present an unacceptable risk of severe injury,” said Consumers League Executive Director Sally Greenberg said. “Each year, tens of thousands of people are brutally...
Despite the earlier recall of 1 million Maclaren strollers of the fingertip amputations of children, the government today to re-announce the recall because of how many children continue to get injured. The recall in November 2009 drew considerable attention because of the number of strollers, the reputation of Maclaren as a trendy brand and the nature of the injuries to small children. At least 37 more children have injured...
For anyone with toddlers or small kids at home, window blinds and shades are a potential killer. In recent years, it has become clear just how dangerous the cords in the front and back of window coverings can be. Hundreds of kids have been seriously hurt or killed after getting tangled in the cords. Parents magazine’s website, Parents.com, asked me to help consumers to sort through what is safe...
