Tips, Tricks & Product Reviews
Posted in Accessories, Activity, Books, Equipment, Feeding, Food, Health, Safety, Toys, Travel, clothing on Mar 9th, 2010
Parent Tested Parent Approved 2010 Spring Campaign Winners have been announced. Most of you know I’m on the PTPA Panel of Moms where moms discover, appraise and promote new products designed to enrich family living. If you haven’t checked out the site or the Panel of Mommies, please do so! Each product is tested by [...]
Posted in Equipment, Furniture, Health, Recalls, Safety, Video Reviews on Mar 1st, 2010
The amount of crib recalls this year have been ridiculous this year! I’m glad this is a work in progress. I could not imagine going through what some parents have experienced with their cribs. Take a look at this message Chairman Tenenbaum gives to manufactures. I cannot agree more!
Hazard: The toy has wooden components that can break or come loose, posing a choking/aspiration hazard to young children.
Posted in Equipment, Recalls, Safety, Strollers on Feb 11th, 2010
Hazard: The stroller’s hinge mechanism poses a fingertip amputation and laceration hazard to the child when the consumer is unfolding/opening the stroller.
Hazard: A defect in the lamp’s printed circuit board can cause an electrical short, posing a fire and burn hazard to consumers.
Posted in Equipment, Furniture, Recalls, Safety on Feb 10th, 2010
CPSC has received reports of three infants who suffocated when they became entrapped between the crib mattress and the drop side when the drop side detached. In July 2007, an eight month old child from Newark, Ohio suffocated when he became entrapped between the drop side and the crib mattress. The drop side of his [...]
HAZARD: The orange tips located at the end of the toy guns barrels, which are designed to ditinguish them from real guns, can easily be removed from the barrels, posing a choking hazard to children.
Posted in Accessories, Health, Recalls, Safety, Toys on Feb 4th, 2010
A cylindrical metal connector on a charm can contain levels of total lead in excess of 300 ppm, which is prohibited under federal law.
Posted in Accessories, Health, Recalls, Safety on Feb 4th, 2010
The surface paint coating on the bracelets sold with greeting cards contain excessive levels of lead violating the federal lead paint standard.
The recalled necklaces contain high levels of cadmium. Cadmium is toxic if ingested by young children and can cause adverse health effects.
