child safety

This is the time of year when retailers can't seem to move product out of their stores fast enough, but now Walmart and Target are scrambling to get some of their merchandise back: Potentially tainted infant formula and a children's travel case that definitely has too much lead in its paint.

Consumer Ally Mitch Lipka is being honored with the 2011 Best Friend Award from the child safety group Kids In Danger for his longtime commitment to helping keep children safe. The award will be presented on May 19 at a banquet in Chicago. This is the 11th year the influential group will give out...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission today made sweeping changes about how cribs must be made -- banning the once ubiquitous drop-side crib -- and requiring safety standards that few cribs on the market today can meet. That means virtually every crib in use or for sale in the country today...

The First Years American Red Cross brand cabinet locks, intended to keep small children from getting into cabinets containing hazards, are being recalled because they have a propensity for breaking, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. When the latches break, children can get into the...

Trying to keep your family safe from dangerous products is extraordinarily challenging. You can follow product recalls as millions of consumers do, but many of those aren't issued until months after a hazard has been identified, thanks to a sometimes clunky legal process that requires corporate...

Furniture, TVs and appliances tipping over led to the deaths of nearly 200 young children over an eight year period -- about one every two weeks -- prompting the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue an alert to parents to check for potential hazards in their homes.

A report released today shows there are still some booster seats on the market that may not protect your child in a crash. Booster seats are meant to lift children so that lap seat belts, designed for adults, fit flat across their upper thighs and shoulder belts hit mid-shoulder, according to the...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will provide free seat inspection stations around the country on Sat., Sept. 25, part of the "Child Passenger Safety Week" awareness campaign. The agency estimates that 75 percent of child restraints aren't properly installed, and so encourages...

New York state's Attorney General says his office is ready to sue Tagged.com, a social networking site for teens, if it doesn't immediately address the problem of user profiles the state says suggest and advocate pedophilia. Andrew M. Cuomo's allegations are a warning to consumers that Tagged.com...

Reports of another infant death due to defective mechanics on a Simplicity brand drop-side crib has the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission calling for wider recalls of the popular, low-priced cribs. The latest death involved a 7-month-old baby in Princeton, Kentucky. In July an 8-month old in...