Recalled Simplicity Bassinet After Two Infants Strangled

LEARN MORE CPSC   CPSC/ HOTLINE:  (800) 638-2772 CPSC home Simplicity Injuryboard on Simplicity crib recall 2007     IMAGE SOURCE:  Consumer Product Safety Commission   Six retailers have  agreed to stop selling and  to recall nearly 900,000 dangerous Simplicity bassinets because of a serious safety risk. The  Consumer Product Safety Commission  (CPSC) is warning consumers and parents to stop using the convertible "close-sleeper/bedside sleeper bassinets".  The recall follows the strangulation August 21, 2008 of a 6 ½ month old girl from Shawnee, Kansas who became entrapped between the bassinet’s metal bars. This is the second strangulation death associated with the co-sleeper bassinets. In September 2007, a 4-month-old girl from Noel, Missouri also became entrapped in the metal bars of the bassinet and died. You are encouraged to return the item to the store where...