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CPSC and Fisher Price announced the recall today of 24,000 3-in-1 High Chair to Boosters sold exclusively at Target since December. The chair can be released from the base resulting in a fall hazard. There is one reported injury involving… Read More

The Fullsize Crib Sub-committee of ASTM International, which sets voluntary standards for crib makers, voted this week on a new standard portion that would not allow current dropside crib designs. Dropside hardware failures on cribs have been linked to many… Read More

The six major makers of baby bottles sold in the US agreed to stop selling bottles with BPA, a chemical linked to a variety of health problems. Bisphenol A, commonly called BPA, is in a wide variety of everyday items…. Read More

The International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization (ICPHSO) is really the only place where all the stakeholders in product safety gather each year to discuss emerging issues together. Manufacturers, retailers, testing labs, government regulators from around the world, and… Read More

This morning a New York Times editorial called for new leadership at CPSC to effectively implement the new safety law, Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act and give families the assurance they need that the toys and children’s products they buy… Read More

CPSC has recently added many new items on its CPSIA (Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008) page. Today they posted guidance to small businesses, resellers, crafters and charities on complying with the law. The booklet covers definitions, timetables, exclusions… Read More

In addition to thousands of lead-tainted items (see previous post), CPSC has recalled a Spa Aromatherapy Kit for exploding jars of bath fizzies or bath bombs as they are appropriately called in the set. There were 88 reports of exploding… Read More

Did you perhaps move your child to a play yard to sleep after your crib was recalled? If so, check that it isn’t a Rainforest Portable Play yard, made by Simplicity and their successor SFCA, Inc, but sold under the… Read More

Stork Craft announced both a US and Canadian recall today of over one million cribs sold from 2000 through this month. The mattress support brackets on the cribs can crack or break leading to an entrapment and strangulation hazard. Canada… Read More

After weeks of swirling rumours and talk of shutting down the second-hand children’s clothing market — dumping tons of wearable clothes in landfills, CPSC has clarified their enforcement of the new CPSIA. While selling lead-tainted or other unsafe products still… Read More