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Amazon forced to stop selling baby pillows due to 'risk of babies suffocating' while asleep
The Office for Product Safety and Standards warns these pillows increase sudden infant death syndrome risks by causing suffocation and overheating in babies under one year.
- On December 24, the Office for Product Safety and Standards warned about the Baby Pillow with Patting Function and Goose Baby Pillow, leading Amazon to remove both from its marketplace.
- Regulators said OPSS warned the items risk overheating and airway obstruction, hazards linked to sudden infant death syndrome, and the alert states the products violate General Product Safety Regulations 2005.
- The NHS warned parents and customers to avoid pillows, loose bedding and cot bumpers in infants' sleep spaces under one year, and to stop using affected products immediately while contacting sellers for help.
- The government notice lists affected product IDs B0DPMQXGN8, B0DLWC5ML8 and B0DLWFJXX3, and Amazon has been approached for comment regarding the removals.
- The alert highlights OPSS's warning linking baby sleep pillows to child fatalities in the UK and overseas, with Amazon and NHS involvement giving the warning national prominence.
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