By: Erin Bosman, Rachel Kaiser, Julie Park, Matt Robinson
In a disappointing, yet somewhat unsurprising, turn of events, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has refused to retract Commissioner Richard Trumka’s unilateral statements earlier this year encouraging retailers to stop selling weighted infant sleep products. On August 30, 2024, following public outcry over Commissioner Trumka’s statements, CPSC Commissioners Peter A. Feldman and Douglas Dziak published a statement rejecting a request by Dreamland Baby, a weighted sleep sack company, that CPSC retract Commissioner Trumka’s statements.