Summer Infant Presents Baby Product as Organic, but Fills with Poison

New Moms Beware! Creating a toxin-free environment is one of the best things you can do for a newborn. It is also one of the most difficult. Now, 21st-century Moms must not only learn how to take care of her baby, she also must become part scientist, part detective and may end up needing a psychiatrist!

My daughter has spent untold hours online researching baby products in an effort to find organic, chemical-free substitutes for the baby items standardly sold in stores. IT'S NOT EASY - and everything is more expensive. She placed her baby registries online with Buy Buy Baby and Amazon organic baby. The selection is very limited - virtually nothing is available in regular retail stores. Family and friends did their best to order online, but when she opened the Natures Purest Playard, she broke down in tears - why? Because Summer Infant, the manufacturer, touted this item as organic, but lied about the materials used in this product. The baby mattress is made with POLYURETHANE! How dangerous is polyurethane to your baby? Read from this report in the journal, Archives of Environmental Health:

"...For example, some crib mattresses are constructed of polyurethane foam enclosed in vinyl covers. These plastic products are made by combining highly toxic chemicals together to form the final material. During the sleep process, the child's every breath pulls in air that is literally inches away from the petroleum chemical materials used in the manufacturing of the bed itself. This process begins at birth and continues day after day during the child's critical development periods. With each breath, these chemical molecules are pulled across the child's airways and then transferred to the blood from deep within the lungs..." . Read full report at: http://www.chem-tox.com/beds/frame-beds.htm

Summer Infant, however, has done a good job of CYA.

All of Summer Infant's advertising concentrates on the Natures Purest Collection. Natures Purest, a company based in the United Kingdom, has a superb line of organic cotton baby products. They are USDA certified organic.

Unfortunately, Natures Purest did not make the mattress.

In fact, the mattress is not even mentioned in any of Summer Infant's product descriptions.

Summer Infant is lying to consumers and has absolutely no concern at all for your baby. A lie is a lie whether you say it or hide it -- and Summer Infant hid the fact that the mattress included in the Natures Purest Playard is pure poison.