There are many brightly-colored, interactive and playful items designed for infants and toddlers. New parents often fill their houses with a range of products intended to keep their infants healthy and happy.
Unfortunately, some of those products may actually prove dangerous to the youngest members of families. Every year, there are typically multiple recalls of products designed for infants and toddlers that prove unsafe.
Why are such recalls so common?
Companies overlook safety hazards. Designing a product for infant or toddler use requires exhaustive safety testing. Even minor adjustments to product design could create hazardous elements. Infants and toddlers tend to explore things with their hands, feet and mouths. Items that could become loose with use or after damage could pose choking hazards. Recalls over choking hazards are relatively common.
Bouncers, rockers and similar devices are often subject to recall because of suffocation hazards. Excessive padding or the ability to fold the fabric covering a piece of furniture designed for toddlers or infants could lead to suffocation. Companies may fail to adequately test designs for safety issues. They may only become aware of the hazards when consumers start reporting incidents, often after years of heavy use or unexpected damage to the product.
Those harmed by dangerous products, including parents whose babies suffered injuries due to unsafe products, may have grounds to take legal action. Filing a product defect lawsuit can help families recover medical expenses and lost wages generated by unsafe baby products.
