IKEA No Longer Selling Window Blinds With Cords, Report
IKEA No Longer Selling Window Blinds With Cords, Report

IKEA No Longer Selling Window Blinds With Cords ‘Report’

Amid continued reports of child strangulations on window blinds, IKEA says it will no longer sell window coverings made with exposed pull cords. IKEA is the second major retailer this year to make the change.

As of October 1, IKEA will only carry window blinds or coverings that have either no cords or inaccessible cords.

The retailer is the latest to stop selling corded window blinds that can tangle and create choking and strangulation hazards for young children who may grab them and play with them.

The U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission calls corded window blinds one of the five deadliest “hidden home dangers.”

It says there were at least 285 cases of fatal or serious injury strangulation of young children due to window blind cords from 19-96 to 2012.

Agencies/Canadajournal




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