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05-11-2011, 01:35 PM
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The window covering industry has been offering retrofit kits to help make existing corded blinds and shades safer, but every model that has a looped cord carried the risk of turning into a deadly noose. Nearly every shade made more than a decade ago is likely to have at least the dangerous inner cord -- and many of those still for sale today have them too.

There are millions of products on store shelves that are just as dangerous as they were 10 years ago," Kaiser said.

If you're not going to replace all your blinds, then retrofitting needs to be done to window coverings. For some models it's a relatively simple and effective process, such as removing the cords from Roman shades and holding them in place with clips.

The kits that are provided for free by the industry, which involve clipping loops in cords or mounting a tension device to a wall to prevent the danger of sagging cords, might lessen the danger, but Kaiser's group believes still leaves considerable risk.