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Manufacturer Taylorson denied that its sleeping pods represented an "inherent or widespread danger" and said they were safe to use.
An expert is calling for a ban on padded sleeping pods for infants as a coroner finds a baby's death was partly due to one.
A five-month-old boy died in October 2022 in Hawkes Bay. His father found him covered in blankets and unresponsive in a sleeping pod on his cot.
Coroner Meenal Duggal found the child had died from sudden infant death syndrome. Expert advice from Dr Edwin Mitchell, emeritus professor of paediatrics at the University of Auckland identified the use of a sleeping pod and blankets, and sleeping on his stomach as major risk factors in the death.
