After the death of 30 babies, they removed a cradle from the market

April 13, 2019

In addition, they warned that anyone who bought this style of crib "should stop using it immediately".

The American group Mattel has announced that will withdraw 4.7 million branded baby seats from the global market Fisher-Price, after the US authorities have indicated that caused thirty deaths in a decade.

In this regard, the Commission for Consumer Product Safety of the United States (CPSC, because of its acronym in English) warned that anyone who bought a cradle Fisher Price Rock & n Play You must immediately stop using it and contact the company to receive a refund of money or a coupon.

On April 5, the entity issued a warning about the product, evoking the deaths of 30 babies, since its manufacture in 2009. The deaths, as the specialists explain, occurred after the babies were born. lying flat on your stomach or side without being tied to the straps of the chair.

In this sense, an article published this week in the magazine Consumer Reports He indicated that some of the infants died from asphyxiation.

Following this warning, the American Academy of Pediatrics urged Fisher-Price and at the CPSC to remove the chairs from the market while what he called "mortals".

A baby fell and died while his parents took a selfie

However, in a statement released last Friday, the company Fisher-Price defended the safety of his products and badured that he had issued the voluntary withdrawal "due to reported incidents where the the product has been used contrary to warnings and safety instructions ".

The recall concerns about 4.7 million chairs sold between 40 and 149 USD since 2009.