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September 11, 2008
Chicago Trib: CPSC botched bassinet recall, Graco now implicated, too
In an exclusive, the Chicago Tribune's Patricia Callahan, one of the nation's leading CPSC watchdog reporters, finds that Feds, Graco withheld bassinet warning: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission botched the recall of the Simplicity bassinets, telling some American families that they should not put their babies to sleep in the bassinets while allowing others to continue placing their infants in a potentially deadly product. The story reports that Graco sold 200,000 bassinets made by Simplicity: Federal safety regulators and Graco Children's Products knew two weeks ago that bassinets sold under the Graco name had the same dangerous design that caused two babies' deaths but did not alert the public as part of a larger recall, the Tribune has found. Previous blog on the Simplicity fiasco, which just keeps getting worse. According to the Trib story, Graco officials notified the CPSC on August 28th, the day they heard about the Simplicity recall. What has the CPSC been up to? How about: "Utter disregard for the safety of babies." More from the story:
"Oh, my God," said Cara Smith, Illinois Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan's deputy chief of staff, who has been investigating the bassinets. "What possible reason would you not get that information out? Utter disregard for the safety of babies. They sat on that information while people continued to use these bassinets believing they were safe."
Posted by Ed Mierzwinski at September 11, 2008 08:13 AM
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