More counterfeit car seats hitting the market [Video]

Wellness Wednesday is sponsored by Intermountain Health

Parents…remember that feeling at the hospital when you drove your child home for the first time. Overwhelmed by the responsibility for the well being of another human? The first place you put your baby was in car seat.

Depending on which survey you check, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of Americans shop online. However, that doesn’t mean most of us are savvy Internet shoppers, sometimes putting our loved ones at risk.

Counterfeit car seats are popping up on many reputable online retail websites, and some well-meaning parents are paying real money only to get duped.

“These are coming from reputable retailers, but they are third party vendors,” said Michelle Jameson, community health program manager for Primary Children’s Hospital.

“So the big worry is the car seats that are on the market are tested to a federal crash standard. The chest clip…all of the different features that have to be standard, even that …