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Govt issues record 2.1M recall for dropside cribs


Last Update: 11/23/2009 6:24 pm
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 The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the recall involves  1.2 million cribs in the United States and almost 1 million in  Canada, where Stork Craft is based.  (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)
The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the recall involves 1.2 million cribs in the United States and almost 1 million in Canada, where Stork Craft is based. (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)
By JENNIFER C. KERR
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government safety regulators say more than 2.1 million dropside cribs by Stork Craft Manufacturing are being recalled, the biggest crib recall in U.S history.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the recall involves 1.2 million cribs in the United States and almost 1 million in Canada, where Stork Craft is based.

Nearly 150,000 of the cribs on recall carry the Fisher-Price logo.

The agency is aware of four deaths of young children who suffocated in the cribs, which have a side that moves up and down to allow parents to lift children from the cribs more easily.

The Stork Craft cribs have had problems with their hardware, which can break, or with assembly mistakes by the crib owner.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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