200,000 bassinets in recent recall carry Graco logo

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200,000 bassinets in recent recall carry Graco logo
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Two weeks after a number of top retailers stopped selling Simplicity bassinets that had been implicated in the deaths of two infants, the Graco company has issued a notice on its Web site warning consumers about 17 Simplicity-made bassinet models that carry the Graco logo. The strangulation deaths of babies in Kansas and Missouri resulted when they became entrapped between metal bars of the bassinet.
The Graco action is the latest twist in a product-safety issue that has been complicated by the fact that Simplicity has gone out of business. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says that SFCA Inc., the company that owns Simplicity's assets, has refused to cooperate with the government and recall the bassinet. Because SFCA would not agree to a voluntary recall, the CPSC issued a safety alert on August 28, 2008 asking parents not to use the 3-in-1 and 4-in-1 convertible "close-sleeper/bedside sleeper" Simplicity bassinets. The CPSC also helped persuade a growing list of retailers?including some of the nation's largest?to pull the Simplicity bassinet from its shelves.
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