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May 9, 2010 9:32 a.m. EST
Topics: healthcare policy, business, injury, economy, business and finance, health, United States
David Goodhue - AHN News Reporter
Washington, D.C., DC, United States (AHN) - The Consumer Product Safety Commission is warning parents against buying popular drop-side cribs.
The commission issues a statement Friday said the cribs pose unacceptable strangulation and suffocation hazards.
In the past decade, drop-side cribs have been linked to 32 infant and toddler deaths. Another 14 deaths from entrapment may also be linked to drop-sides.
Commission Chairman Inez Tenenbaum said the products could be banned sometime this year. Many manufacturers have already stopped making the cribs in anticipation of more regulations and the possible ban.
The commission has announced 11 recalls involving 7 million drop-side cribs in the past five years.
Like their name implies, the cribs have sides that drop down. Many accidents involving the cribs result from parents putting them together wrong or repairing them improperly.
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