Six Retailers Stop Selling Simplicity Bassinets

Two Infant Deaths Prompt Recall

Foillowing a warning issued Thursday, August 28, the Consumer Product and Safety Commission (CPSC) is urging retailers nationwide to stop selling Simplicity bassinets. The CPSC is also recommending that 900,000 Simplicity bassinets be recalled by retailers.

To-date, Wal-Mart, Toys "R" Us, Kmart, Big Lots!, Target, and J.C. Penney have complied and have issued voluntary recalls of the bassinets.

Parents and caregivers are being urged to stop using the bassinets immediately. On August 21, 2008, a 6-and a half-month-old girl from Shawnee, KA, was strangled to death when she became entrapped between the bassinet's metal bars. On September 29, 2007, a 4-month-old girl from Noel, MO, became entrapped in the metal bars of the bassinet and died.

The Simplicity 3-in-1 and 4-in-1 convertible bassinets contain metal bars that are covered by an adjustable fabric flap which is attached by velcro. The fabric is folded down when the bassinet is converted into a bed-side co-sleeping position. If the velcro is not properly re-secured when the flap is adjusted, an infant can slip through the opening and become entrapped in the metal bars and suffocate. This warning does not cover bassinets produced in recent months that have fabric permanently attached over the lower bar.

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Published on Aug-29-08