Which cribs from Stork Craft cribs have made the recall list?”
Following the largest crib recall in the nation’s history, the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission acknowledged her agency “hasn’t been acting as quickly as it should” to address crib safety. More than 2.1 million drop-side cribs made by Stork Craft were recalled Monday following reports of four infants suffocating in them. Commission chief Inez Tenenbaum was on the hot seat Tuesday, explaining why federal regulators hadn’t acted sooner despite warnings that the drop sides could partially detach and entrap a child. “We have just not been acting as quickly as we should have at the Consumer Product Safety Commission on these types of incidents,” she said on CBS’ “Early Show.” She added that she was recently appointed and became aware of the issue “just a few weeks ago.” While the recall only affects cribs by Stork Craft – which will provide a free repair kit to immobilize the sides – Tenenbaum recommends parents abandon drop-sides altogether.
U.S. and Canadian government safety regulators are recalling more than 2.1 million drop-side cribs made by B.C.-based Stork Craft Manufacturing. It’s the the biggest crib recall in U.S. history. The joint recall by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada involves 1.2 million cribs in the United States and more than 968,800 in Canada made between January 1993 and October 2009. Nearly 150,000 of the recalled cribs carry the Fisher-Price logo and were made between October 1997 and December 2004. The CPSC, Health Canada and Stork Craft are aware of 110 incidents of drop-side detachment: 67 incidents in the U.S. and 43 in Canada.They’re also aware of four suffocations: a seven-month-old in Gouverneur, N.Y.; a seven-month-old in New Iberia, La.; a six-month-old in Summersville, W.Va.; and a nine-month-old in Bronx, N.Y. Full story This isn’t the first time cribs have been recalled. This July, Health Canada expanded its recall of Simplicity drop-side cribs to include thr
