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WASHINGTON - The head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission acknowledged on Tuesday that the agency "has not acted as quickly as it should" about crib safety problems.
Interviewed on morning news program shown in the wake of the largest ever recall of cribs, Inez Tenenbaum President pledged that the CPSC was "firmly but fairly" enforce a law Congress passed last year to give regulators greater authority to police the industry.
More than 2.1 million drop side cribs by Stork Craft Manufacturing Canada are being recalled after reports of four infant suffocation. The CPSC said the recall involves 1.2 million cribs in the United States and nearly 1 million in Canada, where it is based Stork Craft. Sales of cribs being recalled back to 1993 and almost 150,000 of the cradles of wear the logo of Fisher-Price.
The agency said the drop-side cribs have a side that moves up and down to allow parents to remove children from the cradles more easily. He also said there had been 110 cases of abandonment of the sides of cribs detached.
Asked if people should leave these cribs, Tenenbaum said he recommends. She said consumers can also order kits to immobilize manufacturer plastic sides of the crib.
"The commission will draft regulations in the coming months and we will discuss this issue on abandonment of the parties," Tenenbaum said. "I do not think abandoning ofcribs parties will be a party to the future."
Cribs Art Stork have had problems with their hardware that can break, warp or become missing after years. CPSC said there may also be problems with assembly errors by the owner of the crib. These problems can cause the drop side to separate, creating a dangerous space between the drop side and the crib mattress, where a child can become trapped.
The cribs, which were manufactured and distributed between January 1993 and October 2009, were sold at major retailers like BJ's Wholesale Club, Sears and Wal-Mart and online through Target and Costco. It sold for between $ 100 and $ 400, and were conducted in Canada, China and Indonesia.
Stork Craft Calls were not immediately returned.
This is the second major recall this year for the company. Cribs recalled about 500,000 in January because of problems with the metal brackets that support the mattress. Some of the same models in the first recall also part of Monday's announcement, the CPSC said.
Tenenbaum asked why federal regulators did not intervene earlier.
"We just act has not been as fast as it should be on the Consumer Product Safety Commission on these types of incidents," she said. "I have been appointed some months ago to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission and this case came before me, only a few weeks ago."
Consumer advocates have complained for years of neglect of side cribs. Over 5 million have been recalled over the past two years - recalls that were associated with the death of a dozen children.
ASTM International, an organization that sets safety standards for the industry's voluntary everything from toys to the steel used in commercial buildings, approved last week a new standard that requires four buildings, or fixed, parts of cribs Full size - eliminating the manufacture ofdrop - side cribs.
The CPSC is also considering new rules for making cribs safer and could take the voluntary ASTM standard as a mandatory, non-cribs.
Nancy Cowles, executive director of the Chicago-based Kids in Danger, said the agency should include more rigorous testing for durability crib. "Parents should be able to trust that your child is safe in her crib," said Cowles.
Toys "R''Us begun to eliminate side cribs abandonment earlier this year and no longer have the next month.
Stork Craft In memory, the date of manufacture, model number, the name of birth, country of origin, and the company name, address and contact information are in the assembly instruction sheet attached to the carrier plate the mattress. The company's flagship "Storkcraft baby" or "storkling" is inscribed on the side rail drop the initials of some cribs