KID Blog

This morning in Washington, DC, the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade is holding a hearing on proposed changes to the landmark Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008. Hearing from three panels, mostly of industry representatives, the subcommittee… Read More

Yesterday, CPSC released the Arm’s Reach Concepts, Inc’s voluntary recall of about 76,000 infant bed-side sleepers, due to entrapment, suffocation and fall hazards. Infants are at risk of falling from the raised mattress to the loose fabric at the bottom… Read More

In 2008, parents of children injured or killed by unsafe juvenile products rejoiced when the Danny Keysar Child Product Safety Notification Act was included in the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act and signed into law. This portion of the CPSIA… Read More

On April 1, Tami Vanderwilt will set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Tami is planning this trip in honor of her grandson, Aiden. He was just 6 months old when his life was tragically ended after he suffocated against… Read More

Chicago Tribune reporter Ellen Gabler has published an article exposing the Consumer Safety Product Commission’s (CPSC) less than adequate job of investigating the role that crib bumper pads play in infant suffocation. The article reported that there have been 17… Read More

Kids In Danger has been selected as the recipient of crowdSPRING‘s latest Give Back project! Based in Chicago, crowdSPRING is a web and graphic design website specializing in giving access to creative talent from all over the world. Their goal… Read More

KID recently met with Ken Levinson, the author of The Safest Line blog. Ken is a Chicago attorney. We asked him some questions about the blog and his thoughts on safety for children. What led you to start The Safest… Read More

After learning of another death, CPSC and Delta today re-announced the 2008 recall of almost one million drop-side cribs. The design of the crib relies on little plastic pegs to keep the drop-side in place. When they inevitably fall out… Read More

In the April 2011 issue of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) advised parents to keep their children in rear-facing car seats until age 2 or until the child reaches maximum height and weight limit for the seat. The… Read More

Have you gone to check out SaferProducts.gov? That’s the new CPSCsite dedicated to the publicly available consumer safety incident database. Consumers and others can report problems with products, incidents and injuries related to consumer products. CPSC has always had an… Read More