Children's Products

CFA Consumer and Safety Organizations Petition the U.S. CPSC to Issue Mandatory Standards to Make Window Covering Cords Safer for Children

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has long recognized window covering cords as a hidden strangulation and asphyxiation hazard to children and today continues to include it as one of the top five hidden hazards in the home. Since 1985, the CPSC has worked with and repeatedly pressed the window covering industry (hereinafter “Industry”) to eliminate these hazards, through public education, multiple corrective actions, and the voluntary standards development process. Despite these efforts, the voluntary standard (first passed in 1996 and most recently revised in 2012) remains inadequate and continues to permit window coverings with hazardous accessible cords that injure and kill young children.