Cribs sold throughout South Florida may be banned under new legislation
Last month, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY, introduced a bill that would ban the sale of baby cribs throughout the country, including in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. Since 2000, these defective cribs, that feature a movable side rail, have been attributed to the deaths of at least 32 infants and toddlers and suspected in the deaths of 14 others from suffocation and strangulation.
In the past five years, more than seven million drop-side defective cribs have been recalled, and many larger retailers like Wal-Mart have already discontinued selling them. Unfortunately, many defective and dangerous cribs can still be found for sale on the Internet, and in use in day care centers. The Consumer Product Safety Commission hopes to have the ban in place by the end of year.
When a consumer purchases a product for their child, he or she believes that what they are buying is a product that adheres to the highest safety standards and that it won't harm, or worse, kill their infant. Lately, it seems that too many defective child products - cribs, strollers, medicine - are injuring our youngsters. It is an incredibly traumatic experience to have a child injured or killed by a faulty or defective product, an experience no person should have to endure.
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