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WASHINGTON - Shopping for her nursery, Kelly Horvath bought a new window shade because its label advertised its child safety features. She later found her 16-month-old son dead in his crib, the shade's cord wrapped around his neck, another young victim of what U.S. government records show are some of the deadliest recalled consumer products.
"It was the hardest thing I've had to go through in my life," said Horvath, a stay-at-home mom in Painesville, Ohio, about the death of her son, Josiah, in February 2007. "I just take it second by second, not even day by day."See the full content of this document
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Deadly Window Blinds Regulation Slow in Coming
The Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates about 500 children have strangled on the cords of blinds and shades since the early 1980s, an average of about one child each month. That make blinds and shades some of the deadliest products subject to rec...
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