7-day waiting period?
Posted on 05/22/2005 6:46:11 AM PDT by Libloather
POLS PUSH FOR MINT BAN
By LINDSAY POWERS
Sun May 22, 4:17 AM ET
Political momentum is building for safer candy.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told The Post she is raising the issue with the Food and Drug Administration and the Consumer Product Safety Commission early this week.
She called the deaths, just two days apart, of Jocelys Santiago, 5, and Ashley Morrison, 4, "completely preventable."
City Councilwoman Christine Quinn, who chairs the Health Committee, is introducing legislation this week to ban large, round candy. She also wants a council hearing on the subject before schools let out for summer.
She said she originally planned to target only the peppermint ball candies. But The Post's findings - that 15 other products on local shelves were deemed by doctors to be deadly choking hazards - convinced her to broaden her approach.
"The results of this survey might require that we introduce additional legislation to address the other hazards that exist on candy-store shelves," Quinn said.
Council Speaker Gifford Miller, a mayoral candidate, told The Post the council would do "everything in our power" to keep deadly candy from children.
"It's a horror any time a child dies but particularly when it's entirely preventable like these cases," Miller said. "I'll be working with my colleagues to make sure that we do everything in our power to prevent this from happening to other children."
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STORES FULL OF DEATH CANDY
By LINDSAY POWERS, SUSANNAH CAHALAN and TOM LIDDY
Sun May 22, 4:17 AM ET
The city's delis and bodegas are a minefield of killer candy. A Post survey of 110 stores found that 61 of them - or 55 percent - still carried the 5-cent peppermint balls that killed two children two weeks ago, even as retailers say demand has plummeted.
And a startling 75 percent of the shops sold some type of candy that doctors say is deadly.
Reporters found 16 different products that could result in choking deaths, according to the assessment of two emergency-room pediatricians at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian.
Thirteen could easily lodge in the airway of a child under 5 whether they are supervised by an adult or not, the doctors determined, and three could be deadly if given to unsupervised children under 5.
"City Councilwoman Christine Quinn, who chairs the Health Committee, is introducing legislation this week to ban large, round candy."
When large round candy is outlawed, only outlaws will have large round candy.
These deaths WERE preventable, but evidently their parents weren't watching them closely enough. So, instead of blaming themselves, they're blaming the candy.
In junior high, I was the recipient of the Heimlich maneuver thanks to a cinnamon disc candy. I'm more careful now (many moons later) and break such candy up before I give it to my son.
Not to make light of tragedy, but this is just ridiculous.
Just think - if she finds out what causes deaths in hospitals, she could include that ban in her HillaryHealthCare plan...
Do we want to ban olives? How about cherries and grapes? Some small plums could kill too. How soon will Josh Sugarman declare war on assault fruits and semi-automatic confections?
When I was about eight years old a friend choked on a piece of ice. The old kind that you chipped off of a block with an ice pick. We didn't have a refrigerator. My mother managed to get the ice out of his throat before he died. No one thought of banning ice. Both sets of parents warned us, as well as others, to be careful when sucking on pieces of ice. We weren't even cautioned on the use of ice picks. We were supposed to know how to use them.
When large round candy is outlawed, only outlaws will have large round candy.
Ah, tis a slippery slope, first it's large round candy,
then it's small round candy, then it's Assault candy,
the kind that has handles and attachments, so called
dispenser candies, and what about those Giant PEZ Dispensers? One already has to register to buy large
ammounts of raw sugar, soon one pound bags will require
identification.
Give your children pure natural Sugar Cane, it's organic
and it helps with our trade balance.
This ad brought to you by the National Dental Association.
7-day waiting period?
LOL!
I suppose assault Pez dispensers with the add-on high capacity candy clips will be banned next.
Oh the concern. Please Hillary, get rid of the mints or get rid of the kids via abortion or better yet, partial birth abortion.
Like she cares about them.
The Olives...now you are going too far.
Semi-automatic Pez. Indeed.
From http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode06.htm#5
Crunchy Frog
Cut to studio. A door opens. Inspector Praline looks round door.
Praline: (to camera) Hello. (he walks in followed by Superintendent Parrot and goes to desk) Mr Milton? You are sole proprietor and owner of the Whizzo Chocolate Company?
Milton: I am.
Praline: Superintendent Parrot and I are from the hygiene squad.We want to have a word with you about your box of chocolates entitled the Whizzo Quality Assortment.
Milton: Ah, yes.
Praline: (producing box of chocolate) If I may begin at the beginning. First there is the Cherry Fondue. This is extremely nasty, but we can't prosecute you for that.
Milton: Agreed.
Praline: Next we have number four, 'Crunchy Frog'.
Milton: An, yes.
Praline: Am I right in thinking there's a real frog in here?
Milton: Yes. A little one.
Praline: What sort of frog?
Milton: A dead frog.
Praline: Is it cooked?
Milton: No.
Praline: What, a raw frog?
Superintendent Parrot looks increasingly queasy.
Milton: We use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose.
Praline: That's as may be, but it's still a frog!
Milton: What else?
Praline: Well don't you even take the bones out?
Milton: If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?
Praline: Superintendent Parrot ate one of those.
Parrot: Excuse me a moment. (exits hurriedly)
Praline: Well, the Superintendent thought it was an almond whirl. People won't expect there to be a frog in there. They're bound to think it's some sort of mock frog.
Milton: (insulted) Mock frog? We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!
Praline: Nevertheless, I must warn you that in future you should delete the words 'crunchy frog', and replace them with the legend, 'crunchy raw unboned real dead frog' if you want to avoid prosecution.
Milton: What about our sales?
Praline: I'm not interested in your sales! I have to protect the general public! Now what about this one. (superintendent enters) It was number five, wasn't it? (superintendent nods) Number five Ram's Bladder Cup. (exit superintendent) What sort of confection is this?
Milton: We use choicest juicy chunks of fresh Cornish ram's bladder, emptied, steamed, flavoured with sesame seeds, whipped into a fondue and garnished with lark's vomit.
Praline: Larks vomit?
Milton: Correct.
Praline: Well it don't say nothing about that here.
Milton: Oh yes it does, on the bottom of the box, after monosodium glutamate.
Praline: (looking) Wel I hardly think this is good enough. I think it's be more appropriate if the box bore a great red label warning lark's vomit.
Milton: Our sales would plummet!
Praline: Well why don't you move into more conventional areas of confectionary, like praline or lime cream; a very popular flavor, I'm lead to understand. (superintendent enters) I mean look at this one 'cockroach cluster', (superintendent exits) anthrax ripple! What's this one: 'spring surprise'?
Milton: Ah - now, that's our speciality - covered with darkest creamy chocolate. When you pop it into your mouth steel bolts spring out and plunge straight through both cheeks.
Praline: Well where's the pleasure in that? If people place a nice chocky in their mouth, they don't want their cheeks pierced. In any case this is an inadequate description of the sweetmeat. I shall have to ask you to accompany me to the station.
Milton: (getting up from the desk and being led away) It's a fair cop.
Praline: Stop talking to the camera.
Milton: I'm sorry.
Supeintendent Parrot enters the room as Inspector Praline and Milton leave, and addresses the camera.
Parrot: If only the general public would take more care when buying its sweeties, it would reduce the number of man-hours lost to the nation and they would spend less time having their stomachs pumped and sitting around in public lavatories.
Didn't they find one of these death candies in Vince Foster's throat after his "suicide"?
Ask any metropolitan ER nurse how many kids choke on pieces of hot dogs.
Lifesavers
After Dinner Mints
Cough drops
Jawbreakers
lemonheads
Fireballs
Appleheads
Necco Wafers
Jordon Almonds
Salted Peanuts
Pistacios
Jelly Beans
Junior Mints
Snowcaps
Raisenettes
The list is endless, unless we stop this victim BS
Someone please telling this is a spoof - that the Post is using absurdity to make a point...........
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