KID Blog

This week, product safety experts from around the globe will gather for a weeklong symposium in Washington DC. The International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization (ICPHSO) is unique in that it brings together experts from consumer organizations (Rachel Weintraub… Read More

CPSC announced the recall today of at least 500,000 cribs sold under the Generation 2 or ChilDesign labels. The company is now out of business, so CPSC doesn’t have specific numbers of cribs, but knows of at least three deaths…. Read More

On Feb 3rd, New York State Senator Charles J. Fuschillo and his fellow co-sponsors, Senators Saland and Skelos, held a public forum on a proposed ban on drop-side cribs. Parents, pediatricians and child safety experts were all in attendance. Thanks… Read More

Today Toys “R” Us has announced their second-ever “Great Trade-In” Event, an initiative designed to help parents replace potentially dangerous used children’s products with new ones. The event will begin Friday January 29 and end Saturday February 20. Toys “R”… Read More

I’ve been in Washington, DC this week to work on crib safety. Up first, two days of an ASTM (voluntary standard setting body) meeting at the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on beefing up the voluntary standard that has governed… Read More

Today the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, along with Dorel Asia is announcing a voluntary recall to replace drop side and non-drop side cribs that pose suffocation and strangulation hazards to infants and toddlers. Consumers should immediately stop using the… Read More

The CPSC, in conjunction with Caramia Furniture and Mother Hubbard Cupboard’s, has voluntarily recalled approximately 1,000 Diane drop-side cribs. There have been 18 reports of slats detaching from the rails of the crib posing fall and entrapment hazards to children…. Read More

CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum recently released a statement urging parents, grandparents, and caregivers to prevent young children from wearing or playing with cheap metal jewelry. Children’s jewelry has been repeatedly found to contain lead, cadmium and or other dangerous heavy… Read More

Kids In Danger, along with other consumer groups, manufacturers, state officials and others, just completed two days of workshops at CPSC aimed at developing the public consumer incident database required by CPSIA. The event was held in a roundtable format… Read More

Calling all families…. Kids In Danger is creating a new video to educate parents and caregivers about children’s product safety. We need recent home movies of baby showers, bringing baby home from the hospital, first birthdays, etc to help narrate… Read More