Camden (Hampstead)

Safety Issues for Children's Items

Safety Issues for Children's Items

============SAFETY CONCERNS ABOUT CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS================

Because of documented safety concerns, please read the following information before OFFERing or posting a WANTED for the following items that have been labelled as possibly unsafe and hazardous:
*         Cribs with slats more than 2 3/8 inches apart or the holes in the mesh are 1/4 inch or greater in size
*         Cribs with corner posts
*         Cribs made before January 1994
*         Cribs with broken or missing pieces
*         Walkers with wheels
*         Car seats more than 6 years old
*         Car seats with broken or missing pieces
*         Car seats that have been in a crash
*         Car seats that have no model number or date of manufacture
*         Car seats that are on a recall list and the company is no longer in existence

If you're receiving a baby/child item, it is your responsibility to check for recalls and safety before you use it.  The following links from the Consumer Product Safety Commission website provide excellent information:
Child safety seats should have both seat belt and LATCH options. Child safety seats, with a known history and if free of recalls, still can be safely and securely buckled into a vehicle using the vehicle's seat belt system.

Child Car Seats Safety and the law (UK)
http://www.childcarseats.org.uk

Car Safety Seats: A Guide for Families 2007
From the American Association of Pediatrics
http://www.aap.org/family/carseatguide.htm

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/childps/LATCH/QandA.html

Also see:
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/category/child.html
http://www.cpsc.gov/CPSCPUB/PUBS/thrift/thrguid.pdf

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