roman shades

    By Linda Doell

    | 4:30PM 3/01/2011
    About 79,000 sets of Circo beaded door curtains sold by Target Corp. were recalled after strands wrapped around the necks of three girls, slightly injuring them, said the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC said children risk being strangled when playing with the pink bead strands and...

    By Linda Doell

    | 3:30PM 12/03/2010
    Keeping track of the latest product and food recalls can be a challenge, so Consumer Ally has collected them in one place for you to check each week. Here is the recall roundup from the past week:

    By Mitch Lipka

    | 6:30AM 12/01/2010
    Home improvement giant Lowe's is recalling 11 million Roman shades and roll-up blinds after reports of two children nearly strangling in the cords, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. Tens of millions of Roman shades and blinds have been recalled in the past year as safety concerns...

    By Mitch Lipka

    | 2:42PM 11/10/2010
    Hanover Direct is recalling more than a half-million shades and blinds after a toddler from Iowa was found hanging from his neck in one of the shades' outer cords, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. The 22-month-old was freed from the cords by his father, but later died, the CPSC...

    By Linda Doell

    | 3:15PM 10/07/2010
    Green Mountain Vista Inc. of Vermont is recalling 200,000 Roman window shades because of a danger that children might strangle themselves on exposed cords, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The Roman shades recall adds to a long list of similar actions since December. So...

    By Mitch Lipka

    | 12:00PM 8/26/2009
    More than 5.5 million window coverings are being recalled after several children strangled in the cords and other near-strangulation incidents were reported, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.The massive recall initiative includes six separate recalls from six different companies,...