Summer Infant providing warning labels for cords on video baby monitors
Jane Kitchen -- Kids Today, 2/15/2011 10:35:56 AM
Washington, D.C. -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with Summer Infant is announcing the voluntary recall to provide new on product label and instructions for about 1.7 million video baby monitors with electrical cords. Summer Infant is not recalling any product, rather, it is providing consumers with a warning label for the cords, as well as a safe installation guide.
"The product is still inherently safe," said Summer Infant Communications Director Cindy Barlow. "This is a safety awareness campaign to keep all cords at least three feet away from baby."
The cords can present a strangulation hazard to infants and toddlers if placed too close to a crib, and so the CPSC recommends that all cords are placed at least three feet away from a child in a crib.
Over the past year CPSC and the firm have received reports of two strangulation deaths of infants with the electrical cords of Summer Infant video baby monitors. In March 2010 a 10-month old girl from Washington, D.C. strangled in her crib in the electrical cord of a Summer Infant video monitor. The monitor camera had been placed on top of the crib rail.
In November 2010 CPSC received a report of a six-month old boy from Conway, S.C., who strangled in the electrical cord of a baby monitor placed on the changing table attached to the crib. In January 2011 CPSC learned the product involved was a Summer Infant video baby monitor.
CPSC and the firm are also aware of a near strangulation incident in which a 20-month old boy from Pittsburg, Pa. was found in his crib with the camera cord wrapped around his neck. The Summer Infant monitor camera was mounted on the wall, but the child was still able to reach the cord. He was freed from the cord without serious injury.
Summer Infant and the CPSC have initiated this campaign to provide new on-product labels for electric cords and instructions to consumers with the recalled video monitors distributed between January 2003 and February 2011. The baby monitors were sold at major retailers, mass merchandisers, and juvenile products stores nationwide for between $60 and $300. They were sold in more than 40 different models, including handheld, digital, and color video monitors. All video monitors include both the camera (placed in the baby's room) and the hand held device (some models have two hand-held devices) that enable the caregiver to see and/or hear the baby from a specific distance.
CPSC and Summer Infant urge parents to immediately check the location of the video monitors, including cameras mounted on the wall, and all electric cords to make sure the cords are out of arm's reach of their child. Consumers should contact Summer Infant or visit the firm's website at www.summerinfant.com/Home/Product-Recall.aspx to receive a new permanent electric cord warning label about the strangulation risk and instructions about how to safely mount camera and keep cords out of child's reach.
Summer Infant is also providing additional mounting clips for the monitors, should parents need them.
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