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Drop-Side Cribs, Millions Recalled
(IRN)-The Consumer Product Safety Commission is banning, effective June 1, 2011, the sale of "drop-side" cribs. The cribs may be convenient, but millions of them have been recalled.

"The challenge, of course, is what do we do about the millions of these cribs that are in homes?" says Cara Smith, deputy chief of staff in the Illinois attorney general's office. "These cribs are dangerous. Babies have died … when these drop-side cribs fail." Smith says the design flaw is that a baby can get stuck between the mattress and the side of the crib.

Smith says the ban. which extends to second hand sales, is a victory over a strong manufacturers' lobby, combined with a change in administration at the CPSC.

(Source: Illinois Radio Network)
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