CPSC Says Firm Ordered to Stop Importing & Recall Flammable Mattresses
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that a federal judge has ordered Brooklyn Sleep Products Inc. of Brooklyn, NY and its president to stop manufacturing, importing, renovating and selling mattresses until they provide evidence that their mattresses comply with federal flammability laws. Additionally, a U.S. District Judge has ordered them to recall all failed mattresses, mattress sets or mattress pads sold to consumers.
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Faces $1,000/Day Fine if Fails to Recall Mattresses & Pads
If the firm fails to comply with the district judge's order to recall all mattresses, mattress sets or mattress pads sold to consumers that failed federal flammability tests, it faces fines of $1,000 per day.
Admitted It Didn’t Test Mattresses, Failed to Respond to Court Filings
CPSC says that in 2008 and 2010, it conducted inspections and collected mattress samples at Brooklyn Sleep Products' facilities and retail stores in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. The firm’s president, Francisco Chavez, admitted to CPSC inspectors that neither he nor Brooklyn Sleep Products tested their mattresses and mattress sets as required by law. The mattresses failed flammability tests conducted by CPSC for open flames.
In September 2008, January 2009 and again in March 2010, CPSC requested that Brooklyn Sleep Products stop selling and distributing mattresses that failed comply with federal laws.
However, the firm continued to manufacture, renovate, sell, offer for sale and introduce into commerce mattresses in violation of the federal mattress flammability requirements, and Chavez failed to respond to the numerous court filings against him.