After being linked to the strangulation or suffocation of at least 32 kids over the past decade, baby cribs with sides that drop down may soon witness an exit from the market.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission, the country's top regulator in the field, on Friday said it would enact a mandatory safety standard this year that will ban the sale and manufacture of baby cribs, whose sides drop down. Also, the commission has recalled more than 7 million drop-side cribs.

Inez Tenenbaum, Chairwoman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, vowed for the ban after it was revealed by her agency that 32 kids were either strangled or suffocated, when the drop sides of their cribs separated over the last 10 years. And notably, the commission said most of the casualties were reported in recent years.

In addition, 14 entrapment deaths in cribs were witnessed apparently due to drop-side failure, but the agency was not too sure about it as it did not have complete information.

Notably, when a crib's side is lowered or raised repeatedly, it weakens the hardware, thus allowing the side to come off of its position. And once a drop side gets separated from a crib, it creates a potentially deadly gap for babies and toddlers to fall into it and hang to death.