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Unsafe Infant Sleep Products Are Still Easy to Find Online
We contacted to Walmart, Amazon, Go Garden Store, Orbisify, and Le Caneton, where we found unsafe products for infant sleep. Walmart immediately removed the items from the company’s site, saying they were listed by third-party sellers and didn’t meet their policies and high standards. “Items that are identified to not meet these standards or requirements will be promptly removed from…
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Feeling safe with that complicated password? Think again, security experts say – complexity affects memorability and fosters unsafe practices
Overly complex passwords are not just ineffective but dangerously insecure, according to the latest National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines. Humans often choose easily guessed passwords for the sake of memorability, NIST said, meaning many online services have introduced rules that demand a certain level of complexity. For example, many services require users to create passwords that contain…
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Raw Cider Is Just As Unsafe As Raw Milk
Come in, sit down. We last had a little chat about pasteurization when we were talking about raw milk. Milk in stores is pasteurized to kill microbes that could make you sick, but occasionally people will seek out “raw” milk that has skipped this process. (This is a bad idea. Do not do this.) Now that it’s apple cider season,…
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Why Baby Walkers Are Unsafe
From 2004 through 2008, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) staff estimate there was an average of 3,000 injuries per year related to infant walkers among children under the age of 15 months that were treated in hospital emergency departments. The most common injuries included babies falling out of their walkers or down the stairs, injured heads and faces, contusions…
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