ANXIOUS parents besieged East Lancashire shops after claims in a television documentary that cot deaths were linked to chemicals in baby mattresses.
Babywise, a Darwen cot mattress manufacturer, was also inundated with calls but said they had stopped using the fire retardant chemicals after concerns two years earlier.
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