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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall, which one of its commissioners said was “doomed to fail.”
After at least five infants died while sleeping in a product made by Fisher-Price, the company has recalled more than two million of the product, the Snuga Swing, because it poses a suffocation risk, according to the recall.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Fisher-Price announced the recall on Thursday.
There were reports that five infants, who were one month to three months old, had died between 2012 and 2022 while the product was being used for sleep, the recall said.
“In most of those incidents, the infants were unrestrained and bedding materials were added to the product,” it said.
The recall said the product should never be used for sleep and that consumers should immediately remove the headrest and the body support insert before “continuing to use the swing for awake-time activities.”
However, a commissioner of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Richard L. Trumka Jr., said in a statement that the latest recall was “doomed to fail and will keep many babies in harm’s way.”
“Merely warning parents to stop using these products for sleep now will not be as effective as removing them from homes and day cares,” he said. “Fisher-Price cannot un-ring the bell. Dangerous products will remain in homes after this recall.”