The recent suffocaton deaths of two children who became trapped in a 75-year-old Lane cedar chest, prompted the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to reissue its warning to consumers about the dangers linked with storage, cedar, hope and toy chests.

COLUMBUS, OH -- Cribs, bassinets and playpens are related to some 100 infant deaths and 9,500 infant injuries each year, according to a new study by the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is warning consumers that "SafetyCraft" brand full-size and portable drop-side cribs manufactured or distributed by Generation 2 Worldwide of Dothan, Alabama, contain drop-side hardware that appears to be identical to Generation 2 Worldwide ChildESIGNS brand drop-side cribs recalled in February 2010. This hardware found on SafetyCraft drop-side cribs can fail and place infants and toddlers at risk of strangulation and suffocation.

Even if you don't make cribs or other juvenile furniture products, you need to pay close attention to the CPSC's action to ban the sale and resale of drop-side cribs.

WASHINGTON -- Drop-side cribs, linked to more than 30 children's deaths and more than 11 million recalls in the past decade, have been banned by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with J.C. Penney, announced a voluntary recall of Alexander Designs Ltd. brand drop-side cribs.

Chicago — Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association’s “Safe Sleep” campaign for baby cribs is “peddling deadly merchandise.”

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted 5-0 to approve proposed new mandatory standards that would effectively prohibit the sale and resale of drop-side cribs.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted (5 to 0) today to approve proposed new mandatory standards to address the hazards posed by full-size and non-full-size cribs.

Palm Beach, FL - A Florida woman whose daughter was found strangled to death in a drop-side crib manufactured by Simplicity Inc., recently reached a wrongful death lawsuit settlement with Walmart and the now defunct crib maker, according to AboutLawsuits.com. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Simplicity recalled approximately one million drop-side cribs two days after the 2-year-old’s death in September 2007.