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Amazon, Target, and Walmart are among retailers that will no longer sell weighted sleepwear over safety fears.
These retailers decided to pull the merchandise from their stores amid warnings from federal regulators, medical experts, and safe-sleep advocates about the risks of products like swaddles and sleep sacks with additional weight, NPR reported.
An Amazon spokesperson tells FOX Television Stations, “In the interest of safety, we informed selling partners on April 9, 2024, that Amazon will no longer allow the sale of weighted infant sleep products in the Amazon store. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention (CDC), the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) have advised against the use of weighted infant sleep products, and we’ve made this update with customer safety in mind.”
“We work hard to ensure the products offered in our store are safe, and we have teams …