Dozens of infant deaths have been tied to a popular baby product.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

But regulators are too paralyzed to act.

A paralyzing conflict inside the nation’s product safety regulator has prevented the agency from taking action against a popular baby product that studies have linked to at least 48 infant deaths over 27 years and that public health officials say should be banned, according to a Washington Post investigation.

The cause of the breakdown is a small team inside the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission that does not believe the product — padded crib bumpers — played a role in most, if any, of the infants’ deaths, derailing the agency’s attempts to regulate or ban crib bumpers. The position of the CPSC’s health sciences directorate, charged with assessing product risks, is opposed by pediatricians and safety advocates and contradicted by medical studies. It also has led senior officials at the CPSC to question whether their own scientists are producing reliable research about the risks of infant sleep products.

“I’m troubled by what appears to be a wide gulf between the views of our highly skilled technical staff and experts in the public health community,” said Robert Adler, a longtime commissioner who recently took over as the CPSC’s acting chairman. Adler plans to invite experts from outside the agency to discuss crib bumpers at a public hearing early next year.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/dozens-of-infant-deaths-have-been-tied-to-a-popular-baby-product-but-regulators-are-too-paralyzed-to-act/2019/11/23/c6348d68-f5a1-11e9-a285-882a8e386a96_story.html?wpisrc=al_news__alert-economy--alert-national&wpmk=1

Isn't trump's deregulation great?

[MyOwnPeace]

1. And you know.............

all of these "new" parents will be relieved to hear this:

"Adler plans to invite experts from outside the agency to discuss crib bumpers at a public hearing early next year."

Hey, what's the hurry? After all, it probably took a dinner and a movie to get the 9-month wait started anyhow, right?

[Kaleva]

2. When I was a foster parent, we couldn't have a blanket in the crib with the baby.

The only thing allowed was a tight fitting sheet over the mattress.

[Heartstrings]

4. Same when I worked in a daycare...

Absolutely nothing in the crib! Not even a blanket! Some littles were in cribs under a/c vents and they’d wake up so chilled. Their poor little legs were soooo cold! Sleep sacks were also forbidden.

When my kids were little (my youngest turns 40 next Friday) they both had bumper pads, blankets and stuffed animals in their cribs....so what’s changed about infants?

Regulation of bumper pads in cribs, but no gun regulation....yea sounds about right.

[Kaleva]

6. We had the baby dressed in a onesies for night time so their legs and feet were covered

I'm somewhat perplexed by the attention something is given that may cause of the death of 1 baby per year when there are about 3500 babies that die in their sleep for various reason each year.

[Heartstrings]

7. Yes, I agree!

Or statistics of infants smothered while sleeping with their parents.

[herding cats]

3. Never put your infants in bed with anything other than a zipped up sleep sack.

Their jammies, a fitted sheet and a zipped up sleep sack are all that is safe for an infant in bed. There's some who think those mesh borders are safe, but they're not necessary as far as I can tell if their legs are zipped up in a sleep sack.

[Maraya1969]

5. It sounds like: Just take the damn things off!