Pottery Barn Kids Cribs Recalled
By injuheis on July 16, 2010
According to the Associated Press, 82,000 cribs “from popular retailer Pottery Barn Kids are being recalled over safety concerns.” The recall applies to all Pottery Barn Kids drop- side crib model numbers.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is concerned that faulty hardware could lead to the drop-side rail on the crib detaching and potentially causing infants to suffocate or become entrapped. 153 young children in the past four years have died due to drop-side cribs.
While the CPSC’s decision to ban the cribs is good news, what took it so long? Close to two hundred children are killed by a particular type of crib and it takes the CPSC four years to take action? That’s not acceptable. The CPSC needs to do its job and move quicker to recall or ban potentially lethal defective products in the future.
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