Will Curtains Kill Children?

On November 8th, a worldwide online store dinodirect.com released various curtains product on their homepage www.dinodirect.com, such as blinds, Roman shades, etc. However, this event attracted many discuss and debate on whether the curtains are dangerous to children and the curtains will meet to risk to be recalled among customers and net friends. The detailed reasons are in the following:

On June 15th, as curtain cords were dangerous to make children strangled, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the Swedish IKEA voluntary recalled 3.36 million curtains, including blinds, Roman shades and roller blinds. Previously, CPSC had received two reports on two-year-old children were nearly strangled to die. As early as in April 4, 2008, a 1-year-old baby girl died for suffocation because Roman shades entangled her neck.

CPSC believed that rolling shutter’ rope was closed at the bottom. If the rope slipped, it may be set in the child's neck; shutters’ bead may not use the tensioning device fixed to the wall or floor which led to the accident; and Roman shade’ rope is likely to result in a child caught up and strangled.

After the incident, IKEA’ Regional sales manager in China regional sales manager in China announced that the recall is only in the United States, not including China, Europe, Japan and other regions. IKEA explained that, a relevant industry association in North America has provided that when a product is hazard, they will request sellers take the initiative to recall.

The sales manager in dinodirect.com said that these curtains will not meet the recalled risk. Also he reminded the customer that curtains product itself is not dangerous; it is safe if consumers followed the instructions, installed and used it properly. As long as safely as Roman blinds’ installation, they will not reveal curtain rope so that children can not touch the rope.

On the item description page, there are tips for how to measure for curtains and detailed installation steps for all the curtains. The first step is selecting hardware, and then checking your measurement. The third step is drilling holes for the bracket screws; the fourth is screwing in the mounting brackets, at last, hanging your window treatments.

After the release of the new product, many customers blocked in there because of the various styles and fresh design. Especially the Roman shades became the hot-seller. There are different shapes, such as folding, fan folded form and wave mode, etc. It is more elegant and brings vitality for your room. In addition, it owns advantages of dustproof and ventilating. The sales manager introduced Roman Shade sales takes up 15% of total curtain sales, ranking top of various curtain style.

At last, if you are interested in the curtains, you can go to www.dinodirect.com to choose one you like and it will make your Christmas Day warm and comfortable.

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