Product Safety
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure children. It provides information on product recalls so that you can be sure to have only safe products in your home.
Possible Botulism in Baby Food = Recall
Plum Organics recalled its Apple & Carrot baby food today. The recalled baby food is Apple & Carrot Baby Food in Portable Pouches, UPC code 890180001221, with a “Best By” code typed in black that reads MAY2110. The product is sold nationwide at Toys-R-Us and Babies-R-Us.
Here’s a picture of the label:
The company’s recall letter did [...]
Teens Driving While Distracted – Yikes!
If your teen has a cell phone that she uses to text her friends and if she also drives, there’s a good chance she does both of them at the same time. Teenagers think they are “bullet proof.” I remember being bullet proof — nothing could happen to ME, even when things happened to my friends. As [...]
Safety Gates Aren’t Always Safe
Safety 1st Stair Gate Recall
What are parents scared of when they have an infant or toddler moving around? Stairs! Keeping infants and toddlesr away from dangerous areas such as a flight of stairs is hugely important. Enter the stair gates. We all use them to prevent our children from reaching these hazardous areas.
Unfortunately, one of those gates has now [...]
Toys R Us Trade-In Program Ends September 20, 2009
Toys R Us launched a program to get used cribs and other children’s equipment out of the chain of commerce. If you bring a used crib, car seat and other baby products to a Toys R Us and trade it in on a purchase in the same category, Toys R Us will give you a 20% [...]
Read This Before You Buy Used Toys and Equipment for Your Child
People used to get “hand-me-down” baby furniture from friends and relatives. Toys used to be handed down when the older child outgrew them. You could find all kinds of bargains at yard sales and advertised in neighborhood newspapers. Now, lots of us go to Craigslist if we want to buy or sell used children’s furniture, [...]