The Consumer Product Safety Commission ordered a recall of over 900,000 bassinets manufactured by Simplicity Co. The recall came too late for the parents of two small children who died. This is the second recall involving Simplicity bassinets, following a 2008 recall after four infant deaths were linked to the the bassinets.
Parents are urged to immediately discontinue use of the convertible close-sleeper/bedside sleeper bassinets marketed as 3-in-1 and 4-in-1 convertible bassinets with the Graco logo and Winnie the Pooh motif following the strangling death of infants who got caught in the metal bars of the bassinets.
Simplicity Co. is no longer in business, but their potentially deadly baby products are still out there for unsuspecting consumers. Several major retailers such as Wal-Mart, Toys-R-Us and Target have agreed to give store credit for the bassinets purchased from them. Parents should check their children’s bassinets immediately to make sure the bassinet they are using is safe. Better to be safe now than sorry later.
Richard J. Arsenault, 2011
