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KID program activity update
Posted on June 20, 2013I have been traveling all around Illinois this past month and talked with hundreds of people about child product safety. Here are some highlights from my travels: Last month, in Springfield, Illinois, I met with over 30 grandparent caregiver advisers… Read More
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CPSC and Baby Matters settle suit over Nap Nanny, announce full recall
Posted on June 15, 2013On Friday, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Baby Matters LLC announced a settlement of the administrative case CPSC filed late last year after five deaths in the infant sleep product. In addition to the deaths, there were… Read More
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KID’s TEST program gives students experience in design safety
Posted on June 13, 2013As the students at Northwestern University are finishing up their spring quarter, the freshman engineering students proudly presented their final design products. Four teams of students worked with Kids In Danger (KID) developing prototypes to address design problems that had… Read More
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Join KID for the 2013 Best Friend Award Night
Posted on May 16, 2013Check out some pictures of this year’s event. Join KID at our annual Best Friend Award Night May 23, 2013 at Fulton’s on the River in Chicago. KID and our supporters will gather to mark our 15th year and a… Read More
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Mother’s Day and Danny
Posted on May 9, 2013This Sunday is Mother’s Day, a day when many of us delight in our children and our moms. It is reminder of the precious gift of children – and a chance for those children to honor their mothers for the… Read More
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3 cheers for KID’s amazing volunteers!
Posted on April 24, 2013National Volunteer Week gives us here at KID a great opportunity to sit back and reflect on all the great work our volunteers do for the KID organization every day. In March alone, volunteers served a total of 135 hours… Read More
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Update on crib bumper pad action in Maryland and Illinois
Posted on April 22, 2013First the good news… Maryland’s legislative session ended with no further action on SB 618 which was an attempt to stop the ban on the sale of crib bumper pads which is to go into effect in June. With that,… Read More
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This week in children’s product safety…
Posted on April 9, 2013Attention all Illinois residents! The Illinois House is considering HB 3052 which would bring the rest of the state in line with Chicago’s adoption of a ban on the sale of crib bumper pads. Call your legislator and urge them… Read More
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KID adds to National Public Health Week efforts
Posted on April 4, 2013If you follow KID on Twitter (and we hope you do!) you know that we have been tweeting all week about National Public Health Week (NPHW), celebrated the first week of April each year. The focus of NPHW is to… Read More
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KID releases report on 2012 children’s product recalls
Posted on February 13, 2013As we have done every year since 2002, today KID released our report on children’s product recalls from the past year. In 2012, the number of children’s product recalls continued to decline to 97, the lowest number since 2004. But… Read More