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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- It's one of the biggest purchases for soon-to-be parents: a crib for baby. Beginning Tuesday, a new generation of cribs, designed to be safer, will be the only ones approved for ...

Starting Tuesday, it became illegal in the U.S. to sell or even donate a crib that fails to meet the toughest crib safety rules in the world. Newly required safety tests are so stringent that few ...

WASHINGTON - It's one of the biggest purchases for soon-to-be parents: a crib for baby. Beginning today, a new generation of cribs, designed to be safer, will be the only ones approved for sale - in ...

The group that sets voluntary safety standards on cribs, ASTM-International, has accepted a proposal that could effectively eliminate drop sides on full-size cribs. Since the beginning of 2007, the ...

CHICAGO — For much of the time babies fit in a crib, they try to get out of it. They kick at the drop rail during restless naps. They rattle it to get their parents’ attention. And yet crib ...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has approved new safety standards for crib mattresses. In a statement on Wednesday, the CPSC said crib mattresses will be required to meet the new federal ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- All crib mattresses will have to meet new safety standards by fall 2022 in an effort to reduce child deaths and injuries. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said 139 ...

A new crib can cost from about $120 to more than $700, with about 2.4 million of them sold each year. While manufacturers have been making cribs to the new standard for months, some retailers still ...