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Clothing Warning! Infant Rash Outbreak

Posted by SunnyChanel

Parents can be pretty paranoid. We worry about things that our kids can choke on, things that could poke their eyes and now we have to worry about what they’re wearing, and from a family trusted company like Carter’s no less! About 400 infants developed a rash on their backs. And today, the government, due to the outbreak,  has warned of the usage of Carter’s Inc, baby garments with Tag-less labels from their fall 2007 line. That’s about 110 million garments, their knit pieces such as body suits, shirts, pajamas.

There is no recall on the clothing but the Consumer Product Safety commission said if a rash develops to stop using that piece of clothing. They stated that "It appears that a very small percentage of children can be allergic to one or more ingredients in the labels. The solid, rather than stenciled, background on the fall 2007 labels appears to have produced a more pronounced and noticeable reaction among those children who are most allergic to the ink,"

 


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Comments

 

Manjari said:

On their back's what?

October 24, 2008 7:41 PM
 

Lisa said:

This is such a bummer, because I love Carter's. (Good prices, super soft materials, etc.) Hopefully this is a one-time thing. (Or one season thing, I should say.)

October 24, 2008 8:03 PM
 

Shannon LC Cate said:

Well I'll be darned, THAT's what that little rash has been on Selina's upper back.  I was totally baffled.  She wears a onesie from the fall 2007 Carter's collection with the printed-on tag every day and has this little red place on the bottom of her neck/top of her back.

It never would have occurred to me, but there you go!

Well, for us, it is not an overly big deal.  Or else I suck as a mom for not worrying more about it.

October 24, 2008 9:23 PM
 

Knitty said:

So if my baby develops a rash after wearing a particular item of clothing, I should... stop dressing her in that particular item of clothing?  

Thank goodness for these sorts of reports.

October 24, 2008 11:46 PM
 

JeanneSager said:

So they go tagless so it will reduce the irritation of a tag . . . then the tagless is irritating. We can't win, can we?

October 25, 2008 11:20 AM

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