What You Need to Know About That Huge IKEA Recall

It took the last of six child across the United States and Canada , but IKEA – purveyor of affordable piece of furniture and dried elk sausage – has recalled 36 million dressers , dresser drawers , and other pieces of furniture , allot to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission .

" It is but too dangerous to have the recalled furniture in your home unanchored , peculiarly if you have young children , " CPSC Chairman Elliot Kaye said in avideoaccompanied by a presentation of a child - sized puppet getting unceremoniously suppress .

evidently this scenario toy out all the time , with one child conk out from it in the US every two weeks . It ’s horrifically deplorable , and if you do n’t consider it could happen to you or your kid , know that when I was eight , my menage ’s giant CRT TV tip over on top of me while I assay to alter a cable hookup for a video plot cabinet . ( No lasting damage , gratefully , but that ’s not everyone ’s story . )

IKEA recall address tip over furniture problem

From ‘Safer Homes Together’ – an IKEA PSA|IKEA

Kaye called the callback one of the " most comprehensive consumer safe recalls in American story . " It comes one year after IKEA attempted to face the problem by offeringfree wall mounts for your article of furniture .

This fourth dimension around , customers have the choice to take the thorax or dresser back to any IKEA storage for a full repayment ( or entrepot credit , count on the product ’s historic period ) . If the consumer wants to keep their furniture , they can still get one of those wall - mount kits spare of charge . to boot , if you ’re ineffective to get to an IKEA memory , Kaye says , IKEA will pick up your article of furniture free of complaint . For further item , as well as intersection and locating information , check IKEA ’s websiteand theCPSC ’s press releaseon the matter .

badly though , if you do have shaver , tike - validation your homeand do everything you could to keep them safe … even if that intend adjusting your Swedish feng shui . If you do n’t have kids and still have sex your IKEA merchandise , check out ourhelpful ( and low-cost ) IKEA hacks .