Safety Facts
Please see our below statement regarding the recent recall of drop side cribs:
Here at MDB we are a family, and much like your own family, safety is our top concern. In light of CPSC’s historic recall earlier this week, we thought this would be a good opportunity to explain to you what a “long-standing commitment to safety” means to us.
This year MDB turns 20 years old, and in that time we have never had a recall. To us, safety doesn’t stop or start with recalls; safety is a long term commitment to establishing processes and systems that insure only the safest products reach you. Long before the establishment of any formal safety commissions or legislation, safety has been at the forefront of steering our business over the last two decades. We have been working with the same two factories who also share the same sense of commitment to safety and quality that we do. As a team, we have developed an extensive system of quality control checks that range throughout the production process from product sourcing, to the production line, and finally to checks in our warehouse prior to shipping. This process has allowed us to insure that not only do our products meet JPMA, Health Canada, and all current mandates as specified by the CPSC, but most importantly they satisfy our commitment to safety and quality before they ever leave our warehouse headed for your nursery. It is a result of this “long-standing commitment to safety” that we can proudly say that in our 20 years of providing baby with a good night sleep we have never had a recall.
Rest assured, in choosing the MDB family of brands, you are investing in 20 years of commitment to safety and quality.
For additional information please visit the official CPSC website at: http://www.cpsc.gov/
Please be advised that copies of all complaints logged with the CPSC by a consumer are forwarded to the manufacturer. To date MDB has received no complaints that would indicate inclusion in a recall.
At MDB, creating safer products is not just a part of our business - it is our business. We’re a family-owned company, and we believe that a baby crib is meant to shelter, soothe, and offer serenity to your family’s newest member - your baby. We take pride in the work that we do and the products that we make, and our commitment to safety is our commitment to your family, that MDB products will keep your baby safe, healthy and happy.
Safety is not new to us - it is part of our MDB history. Here are a few key safety facts about our company and our products to help show just how passionate about safety we really are:
MDB has never had a recall. And we work very hard every day to keep it this way.
We go above and beyond regulations. Aside from passing the CPSC’s federal safety standards and being JPMA certified, we put our factories through even more strenuous safety criteria, passing both the meticulous Canadian and Japanese safety requirements as well.
Our paint is ultra-safe. One example of the above is our non-toxic paint standards here at MDB. We exceed JPMA regulations and go through annual paint tests.The results: To call paint “safe” means it has toxic materials under 300ppm, for a company to claim “low toxicity” means they have paint with toxicity below 90ppm - here at MDB, our paint levels come in at less than 2ppm.
Even our teething rail is safe. Our teething rail has also been tested and is phthalates safe.
We never settle for “good enough”. We have created our own rigorous quality control programs to stay ahead of industry standards. We have a quality control team at our production site that individually checks and hand packs each piece to assure a high level quality and craftsmanship before we let our pieces leave our factory doors.
We are obsessive about quality – and check over and over again. Not only do we have a quality control team manually check our pieces before they are packed and shipped from the factory, but once the products arrive in the U.S. we have another team that assembles case goods here by-hand, and manually checks the individual pieces again. Like we said, you can never be too safe.
We care about the details. Another way that MDB is constantly taking extra steps to care and think for Baby is our “hidden hardware” feature. Many of our cribs have this feature. We know that babies teethe and get into all sorts of mischief, so not having exposed hardware should give you some extra peace of mind. This is also the problem with many recalls, but our “hidden hardware” feature makes it near impossible to install incorrectly and builds for a much sturdier crib.
We are proud of our business. MDB is one of the Top 100 Fastest Growing private companies in Los Angeles for 2009 (we’re #29!) and on INC 5000 as one of “The Fastest Growing Private Companies in America”, a list we’ve also been on many times before.