Anybody looking to buy an infant car seat should read this?

Question

I just read this story, if you are buyinga car seat or already have one you should read this......
http://health.yahoo.com/news/170547;_ylt=AsgglNPBcMF.yCreII6miPRLvs8F

Answer 1

And also they should read this:


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact:
Jam Stewart
Zeno for Evenflo
312-396-9748
[e-mail]

Evenflo Company Statement: Consumer Reports Car Seat Review Not
Consistent with Federal Standards

Evenflo Car Seats are Safe and Effective -- Tested and Proven to Meet
or Exceed Government Standards

VANDALIA, OH, January 3, 2007 – Evenflo Company, Inc. is deeply
concerned that Consumer Reports magazine has decided to publish an
article that may potentially alarm consumers about the safety of
their infant child restraints. The magazine decided to publish this
article without consultation with child seat manufacturers, even
though the tests appear to have been conducted in October and
November of last year. Evenflo is committed to manufacturing safe
and highly effective car seats that meet or exceed government
standards. In addition, Evenflo subjects its car seats to extensive
testing both in-house and through independent laboratories to ensure
every car seat is compliant before initial sale of its products and
during ongoing production.

Despite our request, Consumer Reports has declined to provide us with
an advance copy of the article, and further declined to disclose in
advance of publication the pertinent information relating to its
underlying test conditions and protocols. This is especially
unreasonable, given that the magazine's test conditions and protocols
appear to conflict with the collective experience of car seat
manufacturers, NHTSA and the scientific community. Rigorous tests
conducted by NHTSA and Evenflo have consistently shown that both the
Evenflo Discovery® and Evenflo Embrace™ exceed government standards.

Without access to the full review of the data collected by Consumer
Reports, we are unable to provide a detailed assessment of the
magazine's findings; however, we can offer the following facts and
observations about the specific Evenflo products that the Consumer
Reports article appears to discuss:

Discovery infant child restraint
Since introducing the model 391 Discovery in April 2005, Evenflo has
conducted at least 200 dynamic tests at three different
laboratories. Most of these tests were conducted at test
velocities that significantly exceeded the forces under the NHTSA
standard. None of the tests demonstrated any back angle compliance
issue. Additionally, NHTSA has twice tested the model 391
Discovery and it passed all dynamic testing requirements on each
occasion. Thus, between Evenflo and NHTSA, there are more than 200
passing tests regarding the Discovery at velocities that meet or
exceed the government standards. Evenflo unequivocally stands
behind the integrity of its test results and the Discovery® child
restraint seat and disputes the validity of the yet to be disclosed
Consumer Reports tests. Proper evaluation of those tests requires,
at a minimum, information about the test setup, the crash pulse, the
dummy and any alterations from the specifications in 49 CFR 572, as
well as any deviations from the test protocol set forth in FMVSS 213
and NHTSA document TP-213 Laboratory Test Procedure for FMVSS 213.
We have requested this information from Consumer Reports as well as
an opportunity to inspect the Discovery® units that were actually
tested.

Embrace infant child restraint
Evenflo likewise unequivocally stands behind its Embrace infant
seat. Evenflo disputes the validity of the yet to be disclosed
Consumer Reports test(s) and will review the testing information once
provided by Consumer Reports. Based on the limited information
available to Evenflo at this time, however, it appears that the
testing protocol and equipment used by Consumer Reports in connection
with the Embrace infant seat does not conform to test methods
proposed or adopted by experts from academia, industry, test agencies
or government entities throughout the world. Put simply, there are
serious issues with both the test protocol and equipment that cast
serious doubt on the validity of the test results. Moreover, Evenflo
is unaware of any material difference in performance when the Embrace
infant seat is secured by the LATCH method or through use of the
vehicle seat belt.

All Evenflo car seats sold today meet thorough standards established
by NHTSA and are extensively tested by car seat manufacturers and the
government. Consumer Reports suggestion that the present standards
should be abandoned in favor of its protocol is inconsistent with
real world experience and well grounded input from the scientific
community received in connection with prior consideration by NHTSA to
increase the child seat crash test speed.

As noted by independent commentators, there is no evidence to suggest
that infant child restraints would generally be more effective to
protect children in real world crashes if designed to meet higher
crash speeds. In fact, such changes may be counterproductive to the
overall safety of car seats in real world accidents. Like other car
seat manufacturers and NHTSA, Evenflo is committed to manufacturing
safe and highly effective child restraint seats.

We urge consumers to demand proper disclosure and review of Consumer
Reports test results and to carefully weigh all relevant information
before drawing any conclusions based upon Consumer Reports
forthcoming article.

About Evenflo
Committed to innovation, safety and comfort for more than 85 years,
Evenflo has been the trusted name in everything babies need to grow,
go, play and thrive. From bottles and high chairs to carriers and car
seats, Evenflo creates inspired products for today's active families
worldwide. Evenflo regularly taps into its Safe Baby and Toddler
Council, a group comprised of experts from key areas in the field of
child care, to provide product insights and research. More
information can be found at www.evenflo.com.
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Answer 2

How can we really tell if this is true or not? I just bought my unborn daughter a car seat and I did lots of research on the seat and read many reviews, all good. So I bought it, and now today I see this crap, that the seat and many other name brand seats are no good. I bought the Graco Infant Safeseat.

Answer 3

maybe parents should be the ones to blame in many of the failures of car seats????? Parents should have there car seats checked out before they put there child in them to make sure they are correctly installed.we installed ours and then We had ours checked out at the local police department. Little did we know, it was in wrong, the manufacturers directions were wrong. The officer fixed us and now we aren't worried about it. we know he is much safer.

Answer 4

this is a toss up. you should weight some great advantages of each and every and picture which might artwork out genuine for you. I do have an infant motor vehicle seat..... my son is understand 8 months and we will ought to get a convert in a position with the aid of fact he just about on the burden cut back. some great advantages of having a infant motor vehicle seat..... is that as quickly as they bypass to sleep you do no longer ought to disturb them. including as quickly as we would bypass to the food market.... my son could bypass to sleep on the journey..... and we ought to easily positioned the motor vehicle seat interior the cart and he could sleep the full time. This additionally utilized to going different places too. and you should think of what you plan on doing with him once you bypass to the food market and such. He heavily isn't waiting to sit down down up interior the cart till a minimum of 6 months........ yet once you save with your husband..... then you truly can truthfully convey alongside the stroller. What i in my opinion enjoyed approximately our infant provider is that it snapped into our stroller..... and that i could take him for naps and he ought to stand me while he grew to become into truly little. If those issues are significant to you.... then choose for the convertible. advantages of a convertible is they generally are greater reasonably priced then a infant provider..... and you do no longer ought to have the better fee of procuring for 2 motor vehicle seats.

Answer 5

I read this. After reading Eveflo's response I will NEVER buy another one of their products. They do NOT care about the safety of a baby, only making money! Their carseat needs to be recalled!

Answer 6

omg that is so sad i just bought my baby a car seat thank you for info


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