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Crib safety: basic is best.(Front Lines)
Cribs are often advertised with all the trimmings: bumper guards, quilts, pillows, and stuffed toys. Trouble is, soft bedding can suffocate infants. Some 900 die that way each year in cribs, play yards, and the like, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) estimates. Kids under a year old should be sleeping in a crib that's nearly bare--with just a mattress and fitted sheet. (Bumper guards are unnecessary but OK if they're flat and firm, not pillowy, and correctly secured.)
Two years ago, the CPSC teamed up with seven major retailers to get that word out. The retailers--Babies "R" Us, Ikea, JCPenney, Kmart, Lands' End, Sears, and Target--agreed that they would no longer show cribs made up with comforters, quilts, and pillows in stores, ads, catalogs, or web sites. Many retailers said they would attach cautionary signs to cribs and put warnings in the catalogs, among other things. "Parents and caregivers will no longer get ...
- JPMA RESPONDS TO CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION STATEMENTS LINKING SOFT...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 1, 1995 700+ words
...conference today by Ann Brown, Chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), has issued the following statements...recommendation which was made to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). MacMillan also announced JPMA funding of the...
- Do some SIDS victims actually suffocate? (sudden infant-death syndrome...
- Magazine article from: Science News Raloff, Janet June 29, 1991 700+ words
...concluded they had died of sudden infant-death syndrome (SIDS), the Consumer Product Safety Commission nonetheless recalled...bags from their shelves last year, the Consumer Product Safety Commission issued warnings to the...
- Blacks and SIDS.(sudden infant death syndrome )
- Magazine article from: Family Practice News September 15, 2000 700+ words
The Consumer Product Safety Commission and Gerber Products have begun a public awareness campaign aimed at lowering the rate of sudden infant death syndrome in African American infants. In a survey of 460 parents of children under age 3, only...
- Cribs for kids: risk and reduction of sudden infant death syndrome and...
- Magazine article from: Health and Social Work Carlins, Eileen M. Collins, Kathryn S. August 1, 2007 700+ words
...from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and accidental...NICHD, 2001). The Consumer Product Safety Commission...on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome issued a revised...on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, 2005). RED SHARING...
- Agency says soft bedding may contribute to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome....
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Schulte, Brigid February 1, 1995 700+ words
...their own exhaled carbon dioxide. The Consumer Product Safety Commission, after two years...deaths attributed to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS, every year. Although...unchanged for decades. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is still a largely inexplicable phenomenon...
- Safe sleeping: reducing the risk of SIDS.(Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)
- Newspaper article from: Pediatrics for Parents Berkowitz, Carol December 1, 2004 700+ words
In 1992, in an effort to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the Back to Sleep Campaign was waged...a crib that meets the standards established by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), and without pillows...
- Resources.(looped window cord repair to prevent possible strangulation; sudden...
- Newspaper article from: Special Delivery March 22, 1999 700+ words
Window Covering Safety Council The Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Window Covering Safety Council...free brochures geared toward preventing sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). One covers SIDS prevention; the other answers...
- Program Urges Black Parents To Place Babies On Back To Reduce Sudden Infant...
- Magazine article from: Jet August 7, 2000 700+ words
...on their backs to reduce the high rate of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) among Black infants. Black babies are twice as...that's hard to counteract, said Ann Brown, head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the agency spearheading the campaign...
