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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b>Happy St. Patrick’s Day all!<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b>FYI<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b>Notice on Stroller Safety Standards<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b>From:</b> "VanOrsdal, Jeanne" <<a href="mailto:JVanOrsdal@AAP.ORG">JVanOrsdal@AAP.ORG</a>><br>
<b>Date:</b> March 10, 2014 at 10:53:04 AM EDT<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:HEALTHANDSAFETY@LISTSERV.AAP.ORG">HEALTHANDSAFETY@LISTSERV.AAP.ORG</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b>New Stroller Standards from CPSC</b><br>
<b>Reply-To:</b> "VanOrsdal, Jeanne" <<a href="mailto:JVanOrsdal@AAP.ORG">JVanOrsdal@AAP.ORG</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#3A6E8F">NEW STROLLER SAFETY STANDARDS FROM CPSC</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#455560">The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has approved new
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<span style="color:#C6006F">federal mandatory safety standards</span></a> for carriages and strollers. The new standard addresses stroller head entrapment, broken wheels, parking brake failures, locking mechanism problems, restraint issues such as a child unbuckling
the restraint and restraint breakage or detachment, and hinge issues such as pinching and amputations. CPSC has received about 1,300 incident reports related to strollers reported from January 1, 2008 through June 30, 2013. Four of those incidents involved
a fatality. The new standard will take effect in September 2015. Learn more about the new standard on the
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<span style="color:#C6006F">CPSC Web site</span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.cpsc.gov/onsafety/2014/03/new-stroller-and-carriages-safety-standard-what-it-means/">http://www.cpsc.gov/onsafety/2014/03/new-stroller-and-carriages-safety-standard-what-it-means/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Bright","serif";color:#503D67">Jeanne VanOrsdal, M.Ed.<br>
Manager, Early Education and Child Care Initiatives<br>
Project Director, Healthy Child Care America </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Bright","serif";color:#503D67">American Academy of Pediatrics<br>
141 Northwest Point Blvd<br>
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007-1098<br>
847/434-7638 Phone<br>
847/228-7320 Fax</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Bright","serif""><br>
<a href="mailto:jvanorsdal@aap.org"><span style="color:blue">jvanorsdal@aap.org</span></a>
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