the loss of an infant"truly tragic" but defending its product as not intended for"unsupervised sleep."
The company, which has sold nearly 180,000 of the baby loungers since 2009, did not immediately return a request for comment on the CPSC lawsuit. An industry trade group, the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association, decried the CPSC actions as"regulatory overreach,"Consumer groups applauded the CPSC's latest move.
"We urge families and childcare facilities who have these loungers to immediately stop using the products," Nancy Cowles, executive director of Kids in Danger said in an emailed statement. The government's legal action against Leachco is an important step, said Rachel Weintraub, legislative director and general counsel with the Consumer Federation of America."The CPSC should use all of the tools it has to remove products that pose suffocation risks to infants from the marketplace and from people's homes." baby loungers linked to eight infant deaths.