Rechargeable Batteries in Video Baby Monitors Recalled to Replace by Summer Infant Due to Burn Hazard
February 18, 2011
Sold Exclusively at Babies R Us
Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Recalled Video Baby Monitors.
Two Strangulation Deaths Prompt Summer Infant to Recall Video Baby Monitors with Cords
February 15, 2011
Firm to Provide New On-Product Label and Instructions
Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with Summer Infant Inc., of Woonsocket, RI, is announcing the voluntary recall to provide new on product label and instructions for about 1.7 million video baby monitors with electrical cords.
The cords can present a strangulation hazard to infants and toddlers if placed too close to a crib. Because of this serious strangulation risk, parents and caregivers should never place these and other corded cameras within three feet of a crib.
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