Rockers can pose suffocation threats to infants when they fall asleep or are left unattended, Consumer Product Safety Commission staff members wrote.
CPSC staff members recommended new design rules for infant rockers to reduce the risk of suffocation.The CPSC’s four commissioners are scheduled to meet Oct. 4 to decide whether to adopt the recommendations. The next step would be a public comment process before the rules are finalized, which could take months or years. The agency declined to comment on the proposal ahead of the vote.
Infant rocker manufacturers Fisher-Price, Kids2 and Beaba did not respond to requests for comment. Fisher-Price defended its rockers in a Of the 11 deaths mentioned in Wednesday’s report, nine occurred when infants were placed in the products for napping or sleeping, CPSC staff members said. Many of the incidents involved soft bedding like blankets, which can pose a suffocation threat, that was placed near or on the babies. Some infants had not been properly strapped into the rockers and were later found facedown.
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