KID Blog

Kids In Danger will hold our Annual Best Friend Award Night on Thursday, May 19, 2011. This year’s event is held at Fulton’s on the River at 315 N. LaSalle in Chicago, and honors Mitch Lipka, editor of TheConsumerChronicle.com, for… Read More

Friday, CPSC took the unusual step of issuing a unilateral warning about a product after the manufacturer refused to participate in a recall.  As their warning and video show, the phil&ted’s metoo clip-on chair appears to pose a real danger… Read More

Home can be a dangerous place for young children. Dr. Kieran J. Phelan, a head researcher at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital explains, “The home environment is the most common location of injury for younger children.” Every year, around 2800 children… Read More

On March 11, 2011, the new publicly accessible database of consumer product incidents began accepting reports.  And around April 1, the first of those reports were through the vetting process and posted online.  We thought the one month point after… Read More

A sad story in this week’s news — a young baby in Pennsylvania was strangled in a recalled stroller while he slept at a family gathering.  The baby was placed to sleep in the Graco Quattro Stroller.  At some point… Read More

  A few weeks back, we posted a blog about Tami as she was getting ready to start her hike on the Appalachian Trail. As of Friday, April 22nd, she had made her way up from Georgia into North Carolina! … Read More

Welcome to KID’s blog on our new website — we’ve listened to what parents, caregivers, advocates and others want to see and made some amazing changes. We think you’ll find the new KID website easier to use and navigate and… Read More

First, thanks to all of you who emailed or called Congress expressing your support for the new consumer incident database, SaferProducts.gov, at CPSC. If you haven’t visited yet, check out the Search page and see what incidents consumers have already… Read More

Saferproducts.gov, the new searchable database at the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) went live for reports on March 11. Now, as the three week timeline for processing the reports comes to an end, CPSC has begun posting those reports. KID,… Read More

At yesterday’s hearing to begin the dismantling of the 2008 safety law which includes key provisions on juvenile product safety named for Danny Keysar, the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade seemed unwilling to consider that their “wrecking ball”… Read More