Health Canada, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (US CPSC) and the Kidco Inc. have jointly recalled the PeaPod Travel Beds and PeaPod Plus Travel Beds with the following model numbers:
Model Number Colour
In December 2011, a five-month-old baby in New York was found dead, with his face pressed against the side wall of the tent. The CPSC reports six further incidents of children entrapped or in "physical distress" within the tent, while Health Canada received three reports of infants "rolling over and getting their faces trapped between the mattress and the side of the product."
Customers are advised to immediately stop using the KidCo PeaPod, and contact KidCo for a free repair kit, available from December 2012. Customers are warned, even with the repair kit, that the tent is not to for use by children under one year old.
For further information, customers can contact KidCo toll-free at 1-855-847-8600 between 8:30 AM and 5 PM CT Monday through Friday or visit the company's website to receive the kit.
From January 2005 to present, approximately 220,000 of the travel beds were sold in the United States, and 30,000 in Canada.
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