
March 2010: Product Recalls and Related News Part Two of Two Those who’ve already read Part One of this review know that an unusually high number of products posing choking, strangulation and fall risks are set forth in the March 2010 Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC’s) recall list. Other noted items can create shock, burn and [...]
Continue reading March 2010: Product Recalls and Related News Part Two of TwoWednesday, March 31, 2010
March 2010: Product Recalls and Related News Part One of Two An unusually high number of products posing choking and strangulation risks are noted in the March 2010 Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC’s) recall list. Other referenced items can cause fire, burn, shock or laceration injuries, while still others pose a special threat to infants and young [...]
Continue reading March 2010 CPSC Product Recall Review Part OneTuesday, March 23, 2010
As warmer temperatures return and people head outdoors more often, they’re at greater risk of sustaining serious dog bites. Everyone needs to bear this fact in mind since about four-to-five million Americans are bitten by dogs each year. Approximately one-fifth of those injuries require some form of medical treatment.
Continue reading Dog Bites Often Increase in Warmer WeatherThursday, March 11, 2010
Products intended for use by and for infants tend to draw much attention from consumers, especially when a potential defect is discovered that could put children in positions of danger. Several different products of this type have been recalled in the past year, and it now appears that another infant product could be joining that [...]
Continue reading Baby Slings Could Be Recalled SoonFriday, January 22, 2010
We’ve posted several times recently regarding the new dangers being reported in conjunction with products intended for children and infants. One of the most recent involved thousands of baby swings, but now comes word of a much larger recall that’s being initiated by one of the world’s leaders in children’s products. Graco has announced the [...]
Continue reading Graco Initiates Recall of 1.5 Million StrollersTuesday, January 12, 2010
For many years, the Chinese have been shipping consumer goods to the United States for many reasons. On the consumer side, these products sold well because they did not cost as much as goods manufactured in the United States or in other countries. However, that cost savings came with a risk – Chinese products were [...]
Continue reading New Toxin Discovered in Chinese ToysThursday, January 7, 2010
We’ve been posting recently in regards to several large recalls of products that were intended for use by children and infants, and all of these recalls has raised the level of concern by parents to previously unseen heights. In response to the public outcry against the penetration of these defective child products on the market, [...]
Continue reading CPSC Approves New Registration Rules for Child/Infant ProductsTuesday, December 22, 2009
The world is such now that many families have two working parents in order to live profitably and to properly support their children. As such, parents are busier than ever before, which means that staying up-to-date on the unforeseen dangers that could affect them is very difficult. These past few weeks have provided more background [...]
Continue reading Large Number of Child Product Recalls Has Parents ConcernedThursday, December 10, 2009
One of the many reasons that we continue to cover the issue of dangerous products and recalls is because avoiding dangers is the best way to avoid unforeseen injuries. It seems that lately there have been several product recalls involving baby products, and now comes word that another product intended to be used with infants [...]
Continue reading Thousands of Baby Swings RecalledTuesday, December 8, 2009
Far too often, dogs previously thought well-behaved will attack both children and adults. In August 2009, two brothers in the Sacramento area had to fight hard to escape from their neighbor’s Rottweiler. The dog’s owner had just brought him out of her house on a leash before the attack occurred. One minute the two boys, ages [...]
Continue reading Dog Bite Dangers: Recent Sacramento Attack
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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