The Senate on Wednesday approved a bill to ban the sale of padded crib bumpers, which have been deemed risky by public health experts.
a bill to ban the sale of padded crib bumpers, which have been deemed risky by public health experts.
“The fact that these deadly products can still be found on shelves across the country is extremely confusing to new parents who don’t believe stores would be selling them if they were truly dangerous to babies,” Duckworth said in a statement.released by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that many parents were unaware of the dangers posed by crib bumpers and assumed they would be removed from stores if found unsafe.
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