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Mr. President, An Easy-Bake Oven Shouldn't Send Kids To The ER
Category: In Your Face
More evidence that the Bush Administration is dismantling the federal health and safety agencies created to protect us and our children.
Number of Kids Hurt by Dangerous Products More than Doubles
A new study finds that the number of children injured by products recalled for fire- and burn-related hazards more than doubled in the last five years, in comparison with the preceding decade.The study, conducted by the nonprofit organization Kids in Danger (KID), examined the 40 children's products recalled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in the last five years for risk of fire and burns, and analyzed the recall process and its participants.
The report found that products were recalled for electrical failure, battery failure, flammability, and exposed heat surface/substance. A total of 5,400,014 units were recalled.
"These recalls demonstrate the Consumer Product Safety Commission lacks the leadership, the money, the staff and the legal authority it needs to protect children from dangerous products," said Brian Imus, State Director for Illinois PIRG. "Consumers and parents deserve better than after-the-fact, ineffective recalls."
The President needs to bake some cookies down at his ranch.
While the report found that the majority of the products, nearly 60%, were recalled due to battery and electrical failure, the product which caused the most injuries and had the second largest recall was Hasbro Inc.'s Easy-Bake Oven, whose hazard was an exposed heat surface.
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I just looked at an Easy-Bake oven. In big letters on the oven itself and in the box it came with it states "use only with adult supervision". I take it then that you feel the President should assume the parental responsibility and ban these products. At what point do you feel the parents should be responsible for watching their children. At present the things that sends most children to the ER are pencils as children tend to poke themselves and other with them. Do you feel that the president should step in there as well.
It is natural for the uneducated to look for someone to blame when looking at data, this study is a perfect example. It is easy to blame the Consumer Protection Agency rather than to look at how much time children are now being left unattended at home or in daycare.
Posted by: throckmorton at September 6, 2007 08:58 AM