IKEA Recalling Over 3 Million Blinds

IKEA, a Swedish home decor company, has recently announced on June 10, 2010 that it is voluntarily recalling over 3 million window blinds. The reason, as stated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, is the risk of strangulation posed by the free hanging cords of the window blinds. This recall includes roman shades, roll-up blinds and certain types of roller blinds that do not have tension devices and were sold in the U.S. between January 1998 and June 2010. These 3 million recalled window treatments are in addition to several previous recalls in 2008 and 2009. In November, 2008 and August, 2009 about 790,000 roman shades were recalled and, in October, 2009 533,000 roller blinds were recalled. IKEA has decided to take this action as a precautionary measure to prevent any further injury or harm to their customers.

The recall was spurred by the report of 1 1/2 year old Massachusetts boy who nearly choked on a roman shade cord. There have also been two other child strangulation incidents due to hazardous cords of IKEA blinds, resulting in one death and one near death. All three of these incidents were caused by roman shades, however roller shades and roll up shades are also being recalled because they share the same hazardous cords and loops that lack a tension device.

With this expanded recall, IKEA has officially joined the industry wide recall of over 50 million window blinds that took place last December for the exact same product and reasons. Such retailers also involved are, Walmart, J.C. Penney, Ace Hardware, and many others. The safety agency has estimated that about 500 children have strangled on the cords of blinds and shades since the early 1980s, an average of about one child each month. This shocking statistic demonstrates the real danger of the situation and why almost the entire industry was compelled to recall these window blind products.

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