It won't stop with gas stoves - by Tom Knighton -
Tom Knighton"Last week, the Consumer Product Safety Council stirred up a lot of animosity because they started talking about
banning gas stoves...
However, it’s not the only time the CPSC has gotten stupid.
Over at National Review, Dominic Pino
provides another example:
The CPSC is currently in the process of harassing a small-business owner whose product has been used safely by thousands of people since 2009.Leachco, an Oklahoma-based firm founded by Jamie and Clyde Leach, manufactures
the Podster, a lounge pillow for infants. The pillow has sides that cup babies to keep them in place. Over
180,000 have been sold since the product first came to market.
- In 2015, a day-care worker broke state law and the day-care center’s rules by leaving an infant unattended in a Podster for over an hour and a half.
- In 2018, two parents accidentally smothered their baby in bed while co-sleeping.
Both those infants tragically died.
- The CPSC is using those cases to warn consumers to “immediately stop using the Podster.”
Both babies were in a Podster when they died, but anyone with common sense can see that the negligence of adults, not the safety of the product, was the likely culprit.
Those are the only two infant deaths the CPSC cites as being associated with the Podster, which has otherwise been used safely by thousands of parents...
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