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Kids in Danger (KID) is an American non-profit dedicated to educating parents, training engineers, designers, and manufacturers, and advocating for improvements in children's product safety in cribs, toys, bathtub seats, bunk beds, car seats, carriers, costumes, crib bumpers, high chairs, gates, play yards, strollers, walkers, and other potentially dangerous items. Its website supplies listings of products recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission as well as providing suggestions and information on how to protect children. KID also works alongside other groups such as the Consumer Federation of America and Consumers Union in order to improve product safety.〔http://www.consumerfed.org/pdfs/2005_Budget_Ltr_to_Approps_Subs_Full_Sub_Com.PDF〕 ==Background== KID was founded in 1998〔(KID - a nonprofit dedicated to protecting children from dangerous children's products )〕 by two Chicago parents, Linda Ginzel and Boaz Keysar who are professors at the University of Chicago after their son Danny was killed by a crib that had been recalled five years previously.〔Mohl, Bruce and Patricia Wen, "Are Consumers Getting Enough Protection? Chicago Toddler's Death in a Portable Crib Puts the Issue of Product Safety in the Spotlight," The Boston Globe, July 30, 1998, p. 3〕 Danny's parents resolved to take action and founded KID.〔 Congressman Bobby L. Rush and Senator Dick Durbin, both of Illinois, held hearings on the topic of dangerous children's toys in June, 2007 at which KID's Executive Director Nancy Cowles testified along with Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and others.〔http://www.house.gov/list/press/il01_rush/Chicagohearingtoys.html〕 In 2005, Illinois passed legislation that required the Illinois Department of Public Health to place children's product recalls on its website as well as to link to the CPSC site〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Illinois.gov - Illinois Government News Network (IGNN) - Search the News Results )〕 In September, 2007, the head of the CPSC testified on product safety in Congress and one report noted "After years of sparsely attended congressional hearings, Nancy A. Nord, acting chairman of the CPSC, was greeted by a standing-room-only crowd at her September appearance before a Senate subcommittee. By then, retailers had begun retesting their inventory and recalls of lead-laced toys became almost daily events."〔Shin, Annys, "Senate Votes for Safer Products," Washington Post, March 7, 2008, p. A1, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030604081.html〕 The Consumer Product Safety Commission began to act on lead in children's toys in January, 2008. KID's Cowles observed that quicker action in this area "would have made safer products available sooner".〔McQueen, MP, "Some Stalled Safety Rules for Products May Be Enacted," Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2008, p. A2, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120011105356285949.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kids In Danger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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