CPSC: Two deaths lead to hammock recall
Submitted by admin on December 9, 2009 – 9:26 amNo Comment | 34 views
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that two infant deaths have led to the recall of about 24,000 Amby Baby Motion Beds — hammock-like beds marketed to parents of fussy babies with colic or reflux. The Consumer Product Safety Commission said Tuesday that the side-to-side shifting or tilting of the hammock can cause an infant to roll and become trapped or wedged against the hammock’s fabric or mattress pad, posing a suffocation risk to babies.
Two infants suffocated this summer — a 4-month-old in Georgia and a 5-month-old in Oregon. The beds, made by Amby Baby USA of Minneapolis, look somewhat like a baby swing, but have mesh and fabric sides, resembling a hammock.
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