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Kids In Danger

Kids in Danger (KID) is an American non-profit dedicated to educating parents, training engineers, designers, and manufacturers, and advocating for improvements in children's product safety in cribs, toys, bathtub seats, bunk beds, car seats, carriers, costumes, crib bumpers, high chairs, gates, play yards, strollers, walkers, and other potentially dangerous items. Its website supplies listings of products recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission as well as providing suggestions and information on how to protect children.

Problems with CPSC methods of recall were noted in 2006:

The most remarkable thing about recalls is how few people respond to them. (The second-most-remarkable thing is that the safety commission cannot say how effective a single recall is.) Companies do not like to publicize that they sold a defective product. But because few companies know who bought a product, publicity is generally the only way most can reach customers. “The whole system in which the government, particularly the C.P.S.C., communicates to the public is fatally flawed,” said Rachel Weintraub, director for public safety at the Consumer Federation of America, an advocacy group. “They send press releases out and hope people see it on TV or on the radio.” It does not help that the safety commission, the federal agency charged with protecting consumers, is severely limited in what it can say about safety investigations. Even after a recall is announced, it cannot disclose any information that the recalling company does not want disclosed, agency staff members say.

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Children's product recalls in terms of units were observed as a motivation for Wisconsin to enhance current legislation:

The challenge of getting recalled items away from children is monumental. In 2007, 46.5 million units of children's products were recalled - but in the best cases, only 20% of recalled products are returned, according to Kids in Danger, a Chicago children's product safety advocacy group. This summer, the state Department of Health and Family Services will seek legislative approval of a rule adding recalled products to a general requirement that facilities be free of hazards. "The last time that we revised the rules, the recalled products and the recalled items weren't nearly what they are today," said Jill Chase, director of the Bureau of Regulation and Licensing. The rules were last revised in 2005.

[2] One report quantified the number of recalls as well as the number of toys that were included in these recalls:

Last year (2007) the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced 473 product recalls, which included 25 million toys. And this year is expected to again break records, according to the Consumers Union.

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The CPSC produced a report that measured the impact of this problem of dangerous children's products. One summary of this report noted:

Nursery products were involved in 66,400 injuries that sent children to emergency rooms in 2006, an 11% increase from the year earlier, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The agency said in a report yesterday that the number of injuries to infants and children under age five involving cribs, high chairs, walkers and other items rose by 6,600 from 59,800 in 2005.

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Delayed responses to consumer requests for actions were noted by the Chicago Tribune as follows:

Beginning in 1996, consumers repeatedly told the CPSC that the top railing of a different style of playpen -- one that hadn't been recalled -- was collapsing, posing the same suffocation hazard The commission didn't recall those Cosco playpens until after a baby died in June 2001, more than five years after the first warning. An 11-month-old Ohio boy suffocated when his grandparents' Cosco playpen collapsed on him. In addition, the CPSC failed to act promptly on years of warnings about a Rose Art soapmaking kit that severely burned children. An attorney implored the CPSC's top safety enforcer at a conference, sent him internal company documents and outlined the serious injuries of seven children. Still, the CPSC waited another 1 1/2 years to recall the toy -- allowing another two children to suffer severe burns.

[5] During September, 2007, popular cribs were found to be potentially hazardous and were recalled by the CPSC. As one report noted

"Federal regulators recalled about 1million cribs Friday because the drop rail on some of the nation's best-selling models can detach from the crib's frame, creating a dangerous gap that has led to the deaths of at least three children."

[6] The stance taken by the CPSC was stated in the Chicago Tribune as follows:

'We want parents to know,' CPSC spokesman Scott Wolfson said in an interview. "We do not want your child in that crib tonight."

[6] One legislator added,

'When parents put their children to bed at night, they trust that the crib they're using will be the safest place for them, outside of their arms,' said Senator Dick Durbin, (D-Ill.). 'When you look at the series of recalls of children's products over the last few months, one thing becomes clear: Greater steps need to be taken to test and certify the safety of products designed for children.'"[6]

During a recall of playpens also in September, 2007, the CPSC highlighted the central issue of design problems with children's products as follows:

“This is not a made-in-China issue,” a safety commission spokeswoman, Patty Davis, said in a telephone interview. “This is a defect in the design of the product by the U.S. company.”

[7] In the middle of 2007, toymaker Mattel recalled 19 million toys in a series of recalls for problems with potentially dangerous magnets and lead paint. As Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota noted the dimensions and depth of this problem in one article :

"This summer alone has seen well over 13 million toy recalls, popular toys removed from our homes and our stores because they have been found to be extremely dangerous, in some cases lethal, to our children."

[8] In June, 2008, 320,000 cribs were recalled by the CPSC which noted:

Hazard: The wooden crib slats and spindles can break, creating a gap, which can pose an entrapment and strangulation hazard to infants. Incidents/Injuries: There have been 42 incidents of crib slats and spindles breaking. Four children became entrapped in the space created by a broken slat or spindle. Two of the children had abrasions and bruising.

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