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Strict New Crib Rules
January 7, 2011
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You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Consumer Product Safety Commission voted December 15, 2010 to approve a new Rule for Cribs, adopting the most rigorous standards in the world. The Rule is an outcome of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008. Among the performance requirements:
  • 80 lb. loading on individual slats
  • surviving many thousands of impacts to mattress surface and crib sides
  • wood screws no longer allowed as sole means of fastening structural joints
  • a ban on traditional drop-side cribs (a moveable section of the side is still allowed for easier access to baby)

Of particular concern to infant care providers is Congress's requirement that the Rule be retroactive. No wooden cribs in use prior to the Rule are known to be in compliance with it. All such cribs must be replaced. The Rule allows two years after its publication (expected daily now) for child care centers to replace their cribs.




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elizabeth · January 11, 2011
NCC/child Development Lab School
 Norwalk, CT, United States


Just wondering if a list of safe cribs will be published before we purchase new ones for our classroom?

Liisa Hale · January 07, 2011
United States


We just replaced all our 20-year-old infant cribs in the past year - and now they need to be trashed? Surely there is a way to retrofit these to make them comply!! It is not only expensive to replace them, but such a waste!

Helen · January 07, 2011
United States


Community Playthings website states that their cribs meets the new requirements? http://www.communityplaythings.com/products/cribs/cpsia-how.html



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