Juvenile products must include product recall cards
Consumer-action.org
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
As of June 2010, many durable infant and toddler products—including cribs, play yards, strollers, and high chairs—were required to contain a product registration card and a method to register online that allow purchasers of these products to easily register them with their manufacturer. (The information is only allowed to be used for notification of a recall or other safety concern—not marketing.) Companies are required to notify all of those purchasers who have completed the registration of a recall or other product safety issue.
However, a recent national survey commissioned by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA)—undertaken by Opinion Research Corp. (ORC)—found that over three-fifths of parents with children under 12 (61%) were not aware of this new protection. And an even larger proportion of all adults (68%) did not know about it.
CFA and Kids In Danger (KID) have compiled a list with links to most manufacturers’ registration sites.
In addition, CFA, KID and Consumers Union have produced a brochure that is available online and available in hard copy upon request. You can contact CFA by email at cfa@consumerfed.org to order copies of the brochure.
The materials also can be accessed online through www.consumerfed.org and www.KidsInDanger.org.
Eighteen types of durable infant and toddler products are required to have the product registration cards. These products include full-size cribs and non-full-size cribs; toddler beds; high chairs, booster seats, and portable hook-on chairs, bath seats; gates and other enclosures for confining a child; play yards; stationary activity centers; infant carriers; strollers; walkers; swings; bassinets and cradles; children’s folding chairs; changing tables; infant bouncers; infant bath tubs; bed rails; and infant slings.