New regulations from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission should help prevent tragic infant deaths and injuries when babies are put in hazardous sleep products, such as inclined sleepers, travel and compact bassinets, and in-bed sleepers.
Under the CPSC Infant Safe Sleep Rule, products intended or marketed for infant sleep must meet a new federal safety standard.
Rachel Weintraub, legislative director and general counsel at the Consumer Federation of America, says the new rule does two things.
“It not only reinforces the message of how incredibly important it is that babies should sleep on a flat surface, in a crib, a bassinet, or a play yard – on their back with nothing else in that sleep environment – but it also will ensure that only those products are available for consumers.
Right now, most of the products that don’t meet the new safety rule are off the market. This new rule will prevent them from ever coming back again.
Safety experts remind parents that they should only buy sleep-related products that are marketed for sleep, and avoid older products being sold online or at yard sales. They may not be safe.
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