Fisher-Price has recalled nearly five million infant sleeping chairs, following a U.S. consumer watchdog group’s investigation that found the product was linked to at least 32 baby deaths over 10 years.
On Friday, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said consumers who bought a Rock ‘n Play Sleeper should immediately stop using it, and contact Fisher-Price for a refund or voucher.
“Based on the deaths and injuries associated with the Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play, the product clearly puts infants’ safety at risk and should be recalled immediately,” said William Wallace, senior policy analyst for Consumer Reports. “The CPSC is aware of 10 infant deaths in the Rock ‘n Play that have occurred since 2015, after the infants rolled from their back to their stomach or side, while unrestrained. All 10 infants were three months or older,” reads an alert from the commission., links the chair to at least three times as many infant deaths, including babies younger than three months. The organization says the CPSC alert was issued a few days after Consumer Reports asked for comment on its findings.
Canada requires that the Rock ‘n Play be marketed as a “soothing seat” rather than a sleeper after Health Canada wrote to Mattel Canada in 2011 indicating concerns about the product “in light of the Safe Sleep recommendations of Health Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and the Canadian Pediatric Society.”The Rock ‘n Play can be found on Walmart’s Canadian website, but it’s listed as unavailable.
“And if products don’t meet the rules, the agency should quickly get them off the market and out of people’s homes, even if they conform to voluntary industry standards. It’s totally inappropriate for companies or the CPSC to put the bulk of the responsibility for safety on parents and caregivers — especially when a product indicates it’s safe for routine sleep but really isn’t — or to imply that they’re to blame for tragedies.
The watchdog said the most recent deaths occurred a year ago, one involving a one-month-old girl in Tennessee and the other was a nine-day-old boy in Texas.
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