Two more infants have died since the Boppy Newborn Lounger was recalled in 2021, bringing the total number of known deaths linked to the baby pillow to 10.
On Tuesday, federal safety regulators at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission once again urged consumers to immediately stop using the product, which has been banned from sale since the recall. The agency also pressured Facebook to block the sale of recalled Boppy loungers on Facebook Marketplace, saying that on average the agency finds 1,000 of the products listed there each month.
“We call on you to identify recalled and violative products and to prevent their listing by your users,” the commissioners wrote in a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook’s parent company Meta. “By allowing such products to be posted, you are putting Facebook Marketplace users at risk.”
The CPSC and The Boppy Co. recalled 3.3 million Boppy Newborn Loungers in September 2021, saying infants could suffocate while using them.
“Loungers and pillow-like products are not safe for infant sleep, due to the risk of suffocation,” Robert S. Adler, then the agency’s acting chairman, said in a statement at the time. “Since we know that infants sleep so much of the time – even in products not intended for sleep – and since suffocation can happen so quickly, these Boppy lounger products are simply too risky to remain on the market.”
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