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Friday, December 28, 2012

New Obstacles for Berwyn-Based Nap Nanny

Beleaguered infant sleep device maker faces new hurdles from feds, major vendors.

Berwyn-based Nap Nanny is facing more troubles in the wake of a contested federal government campaign to get the baby recliner product off store shelves. The company has been locked in a back and forth tug of war with the  Consumer Product Safety Commission over the nap nanny recliner in the wake of five deaths that have been linked to the infant recliner. The company's owner and founder, Leslie Gudel says the problems arise not from the product, but from users failing to follow instructions. She is fighting the CPSC's stop-selling order against the company. You can read the background of the new developments in an article posted on TE Patch on December 7. Now the CPSC has issued a press release announcing a voluntary recall by four of the…

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Pa. Ranks Sixth in Child Pool and Spa Drownings

This summer, 137 children younger than 15 drowned in a pool or spa across the country, according to the CPSC.

  This summer from Memorial Day to Labor Day saw a lot of good times at pools, but it also saw bad. One hundred thirty seven children younger than 15 drowned in a pool or spa, according to information compiled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC) Pool Safely campaign. The following 12 states suffered the largest number of pool and spa drownings for children younger than 15: 1.      Texas (17)                                     7.  Florida (6)   2.      California (10)                               8.  Illinois (6) 3.      Ohio (9)                                         9.  North Carolina (6) 4.      Arizona (8)                                    10. Alabama (5)           5.      Michigan (8…

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10:57 am on Sunday, May 19, 2013

An important additional piece of information is the number of people in each state. The order is: 1. California, 2. Texas, 3.New York 4. Florida, 5. Illinois, 6. Pennsylvania But what about the number of pools and hot tubs in each of these states- Suddenly the number of drownings per state becomes meaningless, and certainly the order is statistically insignificant!   more ›

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