What would make you say that?
Posted on 11/19/2013 7:25:36 AM PST by NautiNurse
Edited on 11/19/2013 7:34:03 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
The culprit: single-dose detergent capsules that can have a candy-like appearance. In the past year, they were involved in roughly 10,000 cases of exposure involving young children...
Three years ago, officials at an Italian poison-control center in Milan contacted P&G to report that children were biting into small packets of a P&G concentrated liquid detergent called Dash Ecodosi. The Milan officials advised P&G to make the capsules' packaging opaque and harder to open, said Fabrizio Sesana, a toxicologist at the Milan poison center.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Gold ole American ingenuity at work.
It’s the age old caution. Be careful what you let children get at. It’s known as “parenting.” You DO care about them don’t you?
And here I always thought that putting a cap/scoop full of detergent in the wash was incredibly convenient.
One death does not a panic make. Children and pretty things have always been a hazard. Teaching children the difference between pretty things that are good and pretty things that are harmful is part of the normal lessons of life. Don’t shuck this off on manufacturers expecting them to create rubber rooms for everyone.
I just hope they have no transfats.
Saponified transfats are good fabric softeners.
But...But...the stated reason for purchasing the product is the immense convenience and ease of use. It would be inconvenient to store the product in a location that required an extra step to reach up, open a cabinet.
How about 14,000 reported poison incidents since 2012?
What would make you say that?
You’re right. Tell me, you wear just black and white clothing, and drive either a black or white car ???
Convenience SELLS. And as for measure-and-pour. . . .I can recall when our preferred brand changed format to a more “compact” format. Daughters STILL poured full cup of detergent from OLD box. . . went through the much-smaller box in about two weeks, was supposed to be ~2 months worth.
Ha--we need to get with the program.
That’s all poison incidents involving laundry products? Or this particular form of a laundry product? Be honest here.
The lesson to be taken is, Keep poisons reasonably out of reach of children. Trying to create an over sanitized world actually robs children of life lessons they need to know. They will not always have nannies, and as soon as they are old enough to begin knowing that no that lemon ammonia isn’t lemonade, they should be taught this.
You need to get a smaller cup. :o)
The program is called making life more handy for people.
With many blessings come dangers of misusing them.
We are not excused from teaching our children bad from good.
This is 100% the fault of ignorant parents.
I’ve used this product and like it a lot. No measuring, no muss, no fuss. Toss the packet in the machine and you’re done. Super simple.
Exposure to soap? So. I'm thinking the worst case scenario is a kid chewing on one and getting a mouth full of soap, which they are highly unlikely to consume, unless P&G made it taste like chocolate syrup.
Only a very stupid child would do it twice.
Let me guess--reading the article would be too inconvenient?
Also it is very common practice to add “bittering agents” (like “denatonium chloride”) to products that have historically had the most accidents, to limit the amount that might be ingested.
We do children more harm in the long run by creating unrealistic rubber rooms. Do accommodate the inabilities of infants and watch what you let them get near. But as soon as a toddler can know that a product should be treated with respect (I could toss laundry tablets into the washer without wanting to eat them) that toddler should be taught!
We are all in a spiritual war zone here and the war is intended to end up victorious if we don’t just chicken out and cower in a corner. Teaching bad from good is part of this. Elementary, our dear Watsons?
What’s the big deal? Note they said “exposure” as opposed to sickness or death. It’s probably not all that toxic, and no doubt tastes like crap. Try one once, learn that it’s not candy, and be none the worse for wear.
Let me guess — justifying your snottiness is worth more than a civil conversation?
Ohhhhhhhh but ONE died! ONE died! And we KNOW that it had to have been the tablet that killed him, even though he seemed to be better and doctors expected no problem!
(Hey, SIDS sometimes happens. Though I hope an autopsy was performed.)
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