Immigrant business owner blasts 'anti-science' Biden admin push that crippled her sales: 'Devastating'

A mini business proprietor who has successfully sold millions of babe sleepwear products tells Fox News Digital that her business was derailed by Biden administration actions cracking down connected her merchandise category, which she has called "anti-science." 

"We had been successfully successful business for much than 10 years erstwhile we first heard astir immoderate rumblings pinch nan government," Manasi Gangan, proprietor of Nested Bean, told Fox News Digital astir her babe sleepwear company. "We had sold much than 2 cardinal products successfully to families crossed America and erstwhile we heard that nan statement of products were broadly categorized arsenic unsafe, we couldn't judge it."

Gangan, an migrant mini business owner, told Fox News Digital that she started her "innovative statement of sleepwear" that "mimics a parent’s gentle touch" aft she had problem getting her 2nd kid to sleep. 

"All we're trying to do is lend a helping manus to parents who overmuch merit nan remainder and slumber and we've been very successful successful helping these parents get immoderate bully night's rest," Gangan said. 

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Nested Bean proprietor Manasi Gangan says nan Biden management has unfairly targeted her business. (Getty Images)

In May, Nested Bean’s products, on pinch akin products made by Dreamland Baby, were pulled from shelves astatine awesome retailers for illustration Amazon and Target aft a missive from nan Consumer Product Safety Commission informing of imaginable dangers of nan weighted sleepwear products. 

Gangan told Fox News Digital that nan CPSC has not done nan basal owed diligence. She said she's done extended information research, commissioned a study that showed her weighted products did not inhibit babe breathing, and that location has not been a azygous fatality associated pinch her product. 

"They're claiming that nan merchandise is not safe and we are again astatine a nonaccomplishment arsenic to why, because successful nan 13 years that we person been processing and delivering these products, their information has been our number 1 priority," Gangan said. "We established these products and this invention into nan manufacture aft speaking pinch information experts, aft taking inspiration and proposal from research, neonatal attraction research, and yet, erstwhile we shared this accusation pinch this commission, they refused to return heed and are claiming that these categories of products are not safe."

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Some lawmakers, including Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., person gone arsenic acold arsenic promoting authorities to prohibition nan class of sleepwear altogether, saying earlier this year, "The stakes are simply excessively precocious to let weighted babe slumber sacks and swaddles to enactment connected nan marketplace without grounds that they are safe."

When reached for comment, Blumenthal told Fox News Digital, "What concerns maine astir is that these companies whitethorn beryllium putting children’s lives astatine risk. They’ve sold millions of units of products while trading them arsenic safe successful nan look of beardown guidance from kid information experts."

"Parents and caretakers of newborns are notoriously hard-pressed for remainder owed to nan intermittent slumber patterns of infants, and they request transparent information. Encouraging parents to usage these products without clear grounds of their information and against master recommendations is vulnerable and flat-out irresponsible."

Gangan said she has shared accusation pinch Blumenthal’s agency and met pinch his unit to show that her merchandise is not hazardous, but that has "fallen connected deaf ears" successful what she suggested could beryllium a politically based effort to beforehand a connection that Democrats are looking retired for families. 

"Intentionally, nan legislator is providing disinformation to his constituents based connected a governmental agenda," Gangan said. "That's nan only point that I tin surmise, that it's an predetermination year."

Blumenthal's agency suggested they were unfastened to looking astatine a "more comprehensive" study from Nested Bean. 

Critics of nan sleepwear institution have cited a study from nan American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) informing of imaginable dangers of weighted sleepwear products and nan Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has claimed that aggregate babe deaths person occurred owed to weighted sleepwear products.

The AAP study, CBS News reported, did not trial nan products successful mobility successful existent world conditions for extended periods and only tested weights connected 5 babies for 2 minutes.

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Nested Bean sleepwear (Nested Bean)

Gangan has argued that CPSC Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. has "inaccurately attributed aggregate babe deaths" and cited 1 coroner’s study successful peculiar that didn’t mention Nested Bean aliases a weighted merchandise and appears to beryllium related to "a tragic operation of aggregate proven-unsafe slumber practices."

"While associations for illustration nan American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) person raised theoretical and hypothetical concerns regarding nan imaginable dangers of added weight, location are nary studies aliases incident information that show how, nether what circumstances aliases nether really overmuch weight these imaginable dangers mightiness manifest successful weighted products connected nan market," Gangan wrote successful a February missive to Trumka. "On nan different hand, location are studies showing effective and safe usage of weighted products successful infirmary settings pinch nan astir susceptible of infants. Nested Bean and different companies are supporting independent studies that will beryllium adjacent reviewed, to thief create a amended knowing of nan imaginable issues involved."

Gangan told Fox News Digital she has met pinch each CPSC commissioner isolated from Trumka, who she says "does not return meetings," and pleaded her lawsuit to nary avail. 

"We met pinch nan president and different commissioners of nan CPSC, shared our information investigation tests that we had successfully completed moreover earlier bringing retired a azygous merchandise into nan marketplace and since then, nan tests that had been completed, to stock really a safe merchandise tin beryllium brought into nan market, really invention tin beryllium brought into nan market, hoping to power regulation, hoping to springiness data, facts, subject to guideline regulation," Gangan said. "And alternatively we were shocked that we were being unopen down. So arsenic precocious arsenic April of 2024. Despite our aggregate attempts astatine sharing information, being unfastened and honest, Commissioner Trumka wrote letters to retailers pressurizing them to extremity nan income of our products and this has been based connected nary information aliases science. It's an anti-science effort to dispersed misinformation based connected individual bias."

A study published in Advances successful Neonatal Care diary successful 2020 concluded that "no adverse events" occurred pinch babies sleeping nether weighted blankets successful 30-minute proceedings sessions.

In different missive to Trumka, Gangan wrote, "In April 2023, CPSC’s ain soul Compliance unit completed an investigation of Nested Bean’s products, sending nan institution a closing missive stating that nary further action was warranted."

Trumka's actions connected nan babe weighted sleepwear class person prompted pushback from nan Republican-led House Small Business Committee, which echoed Gangan's concern.

"Commissioner Trumka grounded to return ‘reasonable steps’ to meet nan requirements of nan statute earlier he disclosed nan identities of nan manufacturers of nan weighted blankets," Committee Chair Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, wrote successful a July letter to nan CPSC. "First, he grounded to guarantee that nan accusation is accurate. Next, he made allegations without nan accusation being backed up by technological research."

"The Committee is concerned that a azygous CPSC Commissioner is exerting undue unit connected entities and forcing them to improperly region mini business’ products from their shelves to nan detriment of those mini businesses. Small businesses merit a chance to reasonably compete successful nan marketplace without undue power from nan national authorities – whether that beryllium done rulemaking aliases letters from a rogue CPSC Commissioner. America’s mini businesses merit to person their voices heard and considered."

In a connection to Fox News Digital, nan CPSC said, "Commissioner Trumka’s activities successful this matter were conducted successful his individual capacity arsenic a personnel of nan Commission, and not connected behalf of nan Commission itself."

President Biden posthumously awards nan Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Richard Trumka, arsenic Richard Trumka Jr. accepts, during a ceremonial astatine nan White House, July 7, 2022. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Gangan told Fox News Digital that starting her business was a pursuit of nan "American Dream" and nan regulations from nan authorities person crippled that dream and has her questioning nan communicative that Democratic administrations support migrant and number businesses. 

"America is nan onshore of possibilities, that's what nan full world knows America for, truthful erstwhile I came to this country, an migrant conscionable pinch a grade and a pocketful of dreams, did very good successful my career, decided to return a chance and commencement this business to thief much parents for illustration myself and nan values that I person stood for supporting women, supporting mini businesses, supporting truth, supporting subject data, person been importantly challenged by this action," Gangan said.

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"So connected 1 hand, erstwhile we hear, 'supporting immigrants, minorities, mini businesses and opinionated for science' and connected nan different hand, erstwhile nan management of nan nonstop aforesaid statement that I believed successful is now threatening, my business, has been devastating for my business. I'm questioning my ain beliefs correct now. It has been devastating. We person mislaid 80% of our income and it has stoked truthful overmuch fearfulness successful our consumers that we are near sharing nan aforesaid accusation that was ne'er questioned by our customers before."