Federal safety officials are telling parents to stop using LDLXLHTE-brand crib bumpers, warning the padded inserts can block an infant’s airway and pose a suffocation risk. The bumpers, sold on Amazon between April and May of this year for about $36, fall under the kind of product banned nationally by the Safe Sleep for Babies Act.
The seller, a China-based company doing business as Linhong New Energy, has ignored the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s requests to recall them or offer any remedy to consumers. The agency has now issued a formal violation notice and is urging anyone who bought the bumpers, sold in a white animal-print and pink floral pattern with pink ribbons, to throw them out rather than resell or donate them. They may have been purchased in other colors as well.
No injuries have been reported so far, but the CPSC used the warning to repeat its core safe-sleep guidance: infants should sleep alone on their backs, on a firm flat surface in a crib, bassinet, or play yard, with nothing else in there, no blankets, pillows, or bumpers. Babies who doze off upright or reclined, say in a car seat or swing, should be moved to that kind of flat sleep space as soon as possible. Anyone with an incident or defect to report can do so through SaferProducts.gov.
