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Drop side cribs may finally be meeting their waterloo. For many years several child advocate groups and government agencies have complained about the strangulation dangers of these cribs. There have been numerous infant and toddler deaths associated with these cribs in the last ten years.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has been working on the problem for some time and now they have a senator from New York involved. Legislation was introduced this week that would ban the manufacture, sale, and resell of the cribs. They would also be banned in hotels and day care centers.
Seven million of these cribs have been recalled since 2005 and many stores have already stopped selling them. With what appears to be solid evidence that these cribs are definitely a strangulation danger for small children and infants, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is to be applauded for trying to accomplish something worthwhile in Congress. Now that’s a change for Congress. bjmdjd
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