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NEWS > 2001-1998
In addition to providing information pertaining to our organization, KID provides brief updates on current children's product safety information and events.
Contents of this Issue:
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2001 December 6
Kids In Danger joins co-founders Linda Ginzel and Boaz Keysar in their satisfaction
with a settlement in the case brought by Ginzel and Keysar against Kolcraft and Hasbro
for the death of their son Daniel Keysar. Ginzel v. Kolcraft was to go to
trial yesterday, but the parties reached a settlement agreement of $3 million, one of
the largest on record for the death of a child in an unsafe children's product.
"The most important outcome was the denial of the manufacturers' request for secrecy
," said Nancy Cowles, Executive Director of Kids In Danger. "Throughout,
Linda and Boaz stood firm for the ability for others to access the information uncovered
by the case." It is the hope of Kids In Danger that the publicity around this
case will again warn parents and caregivers to locate and destroy these deadly products and
that Hasbro will use its vast resources to retrieve the thousands of cribs still in homes
and childcare facilities.
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2001 November 29
At a news conference today, Commissioner of the Department of Consumer
Services Caroline Orzac Shoenberger and KID Executive Director Nancy
Cowles, among others, urged individuals to pay special attention to
children's items most commonly used or given as gifts, such as cribs,
car seats, high chairs, strollers/baby carriers and play pens during
the holiday season.
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2001 November 21
As families gather for the holidays, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
(CPSC) is warning consumers that dangerous children's products may still be in their homes.
CPSC is releasing a list of dangerous children's products — over 23 million
product units — that might still be in people's homes. These are some of the CPSC's
largest recalls or consumer alerts involving children's products over the last year,
and include top-rail play yards. Families should check whether old products have been
recalled and place them out of the reach of children.
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2001 November 16
U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) introduced legislation in Congress
requiring juvenile products manufacturers certify that their products have been
tested by independent laboratories before selling them. Her bill, the
Infant and Toddler Durable Product Safety Act, H.R. 3283, will
prevent dangerous products from being sold to consumers. The legislation would
change current law to require independent testing of children¹s products, like
playpens and high chairs, before they are put on the shelves.
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2001 November 2
Thomas Hill Moore today became Acting Chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
(CPSC). Mr. Moore, who has served as a commissioner at CPSC since 1995,
said, "I came to CPSC, in part, because of my admiration for the hard work and zeal
of its Chairman, Ann Brown (who resigned November 1).
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2001 October 30
Today the CPSC voted in favor of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to address the risk of injury
and death to children posed by certain portable bed rails. "We acted because of industry's
inaction," states Commissioner Ann Brown. Fourteen deaths have occurred with portable bed
rails since 1990.
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2001 August 2
The Senate Commerce Committee today rejected President Bush's choice to oversee the
Consumer Product Safety Commission. The committee defeated the nomination of Mary Sheila
Gall, a current CPSC commissioner who Bush wanted to elevate to chair the small and relatively
obscure agency. Gall is Bush's first nominee to be defeated in the Senate.
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2001 May 30
CPSC voted today, 3-0, to publish an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to address
drowning hazards associated with baby bath seats. This is a significant victory! While
we still have a very long road ahead of us, it is a great step forward to have three
Commissioners agree that the risk is such that rulemaking is warranted.
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2001 May 6
When bath seats were first introduced in 1981, the product was subject to no government
or industry safety standard. In fact, the leading manufacturers of the bath seat, Safety
1st, admitted in a deposition to not having a single safety engineer on staff to test the
product. The commission learned of the first bath-seat drowning in 1983. By 1994 there were
18 known drowning deaths, but rather than recall the product, the commission asked the industry
to develop a safety standard for the product. Over the next five years, while the industry
worked on this standard, 43 more infants drowned in bath seat-related incidents. Today, with
the number of babies drowned at 67, the commission is reconsidering recalling bath seats,
but it remains unclear whether it will or not.
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2000 November
Last year more than 65,000 children were taken to emergency rooms for
injuries associated with products for infants — yet most parents are
unaware of the dangers.
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1998 November
Danny Keysar's story as published in the November, 1998 issue of Chicago Magazine.
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