Comments on: What would New York’s missing mattress sanitizing regs look like anyway?

By: Dr. Philip Tierno: “I would never buy a refurbished mattress, a reconditioned mattress, under any circumstances” « New York vs Bed Bugs

Wed, 21 May 2008 16:55:09 +0000

[...] The report was especially good on the absurdity of a system where there is a used bedding law in our state but no sanitizing rules, the missing mattress sanitizing regulations we’ve discussed before. [...]

By: paula

paula — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:01:36 +0000

Tonight on FOX5 there they questioned Kings used mattress sales. It was pretty good. Hopefully leading to making used sales on mattresses illegal. The link from Fox isn’t avail yet. Should be soon, take a look.

By: Gail

Gail — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:11:34 +0000

When someone sues over this the mattresses won’t be big enough to hold the tag! It will have to have the biggest disclaimer in history.Something like may contain : bed bugs, eggs and/or feces of bed bugs, fungi of various species, bacteria of any strain,human urine and/or feces, rodent feces and/or urine,ect. You get the idea.
So tell me how we’re doing poorer people and establishments that serve them a favor? This is shameful,they have got to be banned.I personally would much rather sleep on a new,clean air mattress than a disgustingly filthy old mattress with a new cover,I don’t care how you slice it,it’s exploitation of the poor. Give them bed bugs and filth ,they’ll probably never even notice!
The worst part is nursing homes and such are using these conduits of disease,it’s outrageous.

By: Renee

Renee — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:27:59 +0000

Hi Paula,

This month Maryland repealed its own bedding law. The justification was that bedding products are already regulated at the federal level and that all they were doing was issuing licenses and checking tags.

New York goes one better: it just issues licenses.

No one wants to be responsible for this. It’s too difficult a problem; so it grows and people are left to their own devices.

Individual and institutional buyers of used mattresses are all at risk. Imagine going to live in a nursing home that buys used mattresses.

At least if people had a bit more information, perhaps some of them would decline the opportunity to own one of these special mattresses. Maybe the law should provide for a new mattress tag that disclosed all the risks. ‘May contain bedbugs’.

By: Paula

Paula — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:43:03 +0000

This story unfortunately is not very good news at all. Very very sad in fact. I am quite shocked and down right ashamed of New York on how they are handling this situation alone, needless to say the whole bed bug epidemic as a whole. It is truly is depressing and a shame to see how far this must get out of hand before they step up to plate on major issues such as this. When will New York wake up and stop running from this problem. It seems to me, with all the evidence out there now, that is exactly what they are doing. Why? maybe it’s all about the $$$. What makes this even more depressing is that the cost of putting together a few benefit dinners would do a world of good for the fight of this in NY.