CPSC calls for stronger safety standards that eliminate the risk for strangulation on all window covering products
Today the CPSC announced in a letter a call for stronger standards for all window covering products.
Today the CPSC announced in a letter a call for stronger standards for all window covering products.
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Sunday, August 9, was like every other Sunday. We got up, had breakfast and went to Mass. After church, the kids had leftover pizza for lunch and I got the little ones ready for a nap. The next time I saw Angel, (about 20 minutes later) he was dead. He had hanged himself on a cord from the window blind in his bedroom.
Kudos to Maryland lawmakers!
An article from the AP came out about how the CPSC has waited years to make mandatory safety standards on window covering cords despite all the children that have died on cords in the past three decades. After 200 deaths, the standards are still being developed by the industry.