Kids In Danger

As we mentioned in the last post, KID has moved our blog to be more integrated into our website -- you can find new posts here . This page will remain up for a while, but set your bookmarks for h...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/04/kid-has-new-blog.html

Late today, KID is switching over to a new website -- we've listened to what parents, caregivers, advocates and others want to see and made some amazing changes. We think you'll find the new KID...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/04/kid-to-launch-new-website.html

First, thanks to all of you who emailed or called Congress expressing your support for the new consumer incident database, SaferProducts.gov , at CPSC. If you haven't visited yet, check out the...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/04/cpsc-database-now-has-over-200.html

Saferproducts.gov , the new searchable database at the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) went live for reports on March 11. Now, as the three week timeline for processing the reports c...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/04/saferproductsgov-now-has-consumer.html

At yesterday's hearing to begin the dismantling of the 2008 safety law which includes key provisions on juvenile product safety named for Danny Keysar , the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manu...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/04/house-subcommittee-grills-safety.html

This morning in Washington, DC, the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade is holding a hearing on proposed changes to the landmark Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 20...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/04/this-morning-house-committee-looks-at.html

Yesterday, CPSC released the Arm's Reach Concepts, Inc's voluntary recall of about 76,000 infant bed-side sleepers, due to entrapment, suffocation and fall hazards. Infants are at risk of fa...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/04/arms-reach-bed-side-sleepers-recalled.html

In 2008, parents of children injured or killed by unsafe juvenile products rejoiced when the Danny Keysar Child Product Safety Notification Act was included in the Consumer Product Safety Impr...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/04/proposal-before-house-committee-will.html

On April 1, Tami Vanderwilt will set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Tami is planning this trip in honor of her grandson, Aiden . He was just 6 months old when his life was tragically ended ...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/03/hiking-for-aiden.html

CHICAGO TRIBUNE reporter Ellen Gabler has published an article exposing the Consumer Safety Product Commission's (CPSC) less than adequate job of investigating the role that crib bumper pads p...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/03/failed-investigations-on-crib-bumper.html

Kids In Danger has been selected as the recipient of crowdSPRING 's latest Give Back project ! Based in Chicago, crowdSPRING is a web and graphic design website specializing in giving access...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/03/kid-chosen-for-crowdsprings-next-give.html

KID RECENTLY MET WITH KEN LEVINSON, THE AUTHOR OF THE SAFEST LINE BLOG. KEN IS A CHICAGO ATTORNEY. WE ASKED HIM SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BLOG AND HIS THOUGHTS ON SAFETY FOR CHILDREN. WHAT L...

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After learning of another death, CPSC and Delta today re-announced the 2008 recall of almost one million drop-side cribs. The design of the crib relies on little plastic pegs to keep the drop...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/03/cpsc-and-delta-reannounce-recall-of.html

In the April 2011 issue of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) advised parents to keep their children in rear-facing car seats until age 2 or until the child reaches maximum ...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/03/in-april-2011-issue-of-pediatrics.html

Have you gone to check out SaferProducts.gov ? That's the new CPSC site dedicated to the publicly available consumer safety incident database. Consumers and others can report problems with ...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/03/more-on-database-four-days-after-launch.html

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A coalition of consumer and safety groups today applauded the launch of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s consumer product safety information database that w...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/03/important-consumer-tool-launched-today.html

It feels a little like the eve of the first day of school – some of us are very excited and can’t wait; others, not so much. Tomorrow, CPSC will launch their new publically-accessible co...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/03/tomorrow-is-day.html

Today, KID, along with Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky and Illinois PIRG state director Brian Imus, released Moving Towards Safety , a review of 2010 recall...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/03/kid-releases-moving-toward-safety.html

The database CPSC has been working on for two and a half years is days away from launch. It will go live on Friday, March 11. CPSC has carefully crafted the site to both solicit important safe...

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So the week spent with other product safety folks at the International Consumer Product Health and Safety (ICPHSO) Symposium was full of information and opportunities to collaborate on new ap...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/03/update-on-icphso.html

Where is one of the few places you can find consumer advocates, manufacturers, retailers, regulators, lawyers, test labs and consultants talking about product safety -- and let me add talking N...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/02/icphso-annual-meeting-this-week.html

A study in the March issue of Pediatrics shows that as many as 26 infants and toddlers are rushed to emergency rooms each day for injuries involving cribs, play yards or bassinets. Most of the...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-research-in-pediatrics-shows-26.html

Amendments to vital funding measures are currently being considered in the US House of Representatives that would gut key safety provisions of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act . Under ...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/02/critical-cpsia-funding-in-danger-of.html

A SNEAK PREVIEW FOR SUPPORTERS OF KIDS IN DANGER OF THE U.S. CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION’S NEW PUBLICLY AVAILABLE CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY INFORMATION DATABASE Posted February 16, 20...

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Almost a year ago, NBC Target 5 reporter Lisa Parker reported on a father's efforts to alert the manufacturer, NHTSA and the public to a problem he found with his Dorel Juvenile Group car seat...

http://kidsindanger.blogspot.com/2011/02/almost-800000-dorel-car-seats-recalled.html