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Some booster seats are unsafe
Many lap, shoulder belts don't properly fit seats, safety group's report says
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Jayne O’Donnell | USA TODAY
Oct. 13, 2011
Half of children’s car booster seats can’t ensure a proper fit with all safety belts, an insurance industry-funded safety group says in a report out today.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said six were so bad that it recommended parents avoid them.
Booster seats, which are recommended for children who have outgrown forward-facing child seats, are designed to raise kids up so adult-size safety belts fit properly.
Public News Service-TN
October 04, 2010
Parents Beware of Recalled Toys
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The toymaker Fisher Price recently recalled 11 million products that safety officials say can be dangerous to young children. Seven million tricycles are being recalled because a plastic ignition key near the seat can cause injuries. Over a million high chairs are also being recalled after reports that the protruding pegs on the backs of the chairs can cause major lacerations. Another product that includes inflatable balls could be a choking hazard.
"Some companies take a very hard line and they blame other people. They blame the parents, they blame the child in some cases, and they refuse to be accountable for the harm that they've caused. In those cases, the only remedy for those families is the civil justice system."
Experts say more testing and quality control of toys and products for children needs to be done.
"It's ordinarily not the case where there's one injury and then all of a sudden the manufacturer recalls it; it's usually built up to a critical mass. Unfortunately, it takes companies some time to evaluate the product. The real solution is that they ought to evaluate these products more closely."
Tennessee parents should check the toys in their children's play room for several items that could cause injuries.
For a complete list of toys being recalled, go to the website of Mattel, the parent company that owns Fisher Price, at http://www.service.mattel.com/us
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More than 70,000 children are poisoned each year by prescription or over-the-counter medicines, more than twice as many as are poisoned by other products, a new study has concluded. According to the study, published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, most children are poisoned by acetaminophen, opioid painkillers and benzodiazepine anti-anxiety drugs. About 75 percent of overdoses occur in children under 5, the study found. Nicholas Bakalar, The New York Times 08/13/2009
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Children's Medicine Manufacturer's Plant Unsafe
The F.D.A. released findings Tuesday that the only plant that makes many popular over-the-counter pediatric medicines lacks sufficient quality control measures and has failed to investigate consumer complaints over contaminated product. Last week, Johnson & Johnson, who owns the plant through a subsidiary, recalled 43 over-the-counter pediatric medicines in the United States, its territories and nine other countries, affecting 70 percent of the market for over-the-counter children's medicine. F.D.A. officials said the plant used raw materials that were contaminated with an unknown bacteria and received 46 customer complaints over contaminated medicines. Federal officials did stress that serious harm from the recalled drugs was "remote." Lyndsey Layton, The Washington Post 05/05/2010
Toy Maker Recalls 200,000 Baby Playpens
Dorel Juvenile Group Inc. announced a voluntary recall last week of over 200,000 baby playpens due to the threat of "suffocation or positional asphyxiation." The company said that the floors of the Safety 1st Disney Care Center Play Yards and Eddie Bauer Complete Care Play Yards could become uneven when jostled, posing unnecessary risks to children. The toys were sold from January 2007 to October 2009 at Babies "R" Us, Kmart, Sears, Target and Walmart. No deaths have been reported involving the playpens. Staff Report, Chicago Tribune 12/30/2009
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DECEMBER 2009: RANDALL L. KINNARD SPEAKS ON THE DANGERS OF TOXIC TOYS
Toy related injuries sent a staggering 80,000 children under the age of 5 to Emergency Rooms in 2007. Randy Kinnard said that defective and dangerous toys harm children each year. The U.S. Public Interest Research Group (USPIRG) released "The 24th-annual Trouble in Toyland report" recently. The report follows testing of thousands of toys for possible choking hazards, eardrum-damaging noise levels and toxins, and is available at www.uspirg.org. To read more on the article from Public News Service, click here.
More than 70,000 children are poisoned each year by prescription or over-the-counter medicines, more than twice as many as are poisoned by other products, a new study has concluded. Read Article.
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