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May 30, 2012
Laundry Pods Cause Safety Concerns
Children
confuse packets 1
with candy
(AP) — The m aker o f Tide
Pods will create a new double
latch lid to deter children from
accessing and eating the brightly
colored detergent packets.
Procter & Gam ble spokesman
Paul Fox said the Cincinnati-based
com pany plans to create a new lid
on tubs o f Tide Pods "in the next
couple o f weeks." The company
continues to study the design o f
the package, Fox said.
D octors say children som e
times swallow Tide Pods and simi
lar laundry products, around 1
inch cubes that are meant to be
dropped into a washing machine
in place o f liquid or pow der deter
gent. Nearly 250 cases nationally
have been reported to poison con-
Dr. Billy R. Flowers (above center) and his skilled sta ff are ready to help those in need.
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Laundry detergent makers introduced miniature packets meant to
be dropped into a washing machine in palace o f liquid or powder
detergent. But doctors across the country say children are confus
ing the tiny, brightly colored packets with candy and swallowing
them. (AP photo)
trol centers this year, a figure
that's expected to rise. No deaths
have been reported.
Alm ost all o f the cases so far
have been reported since March,
when several com panies began to
m arket the packets. A handful o f
children have been hospitalized
for several days.
Texas reported 71 instances of
exposure this year, all but one in
M arch or later. M issouri reported
25 cases related to the packets,
and Illinois reported 26.
Some children might be con
fusing the tubs of colorfully swirled
detergent packets for bowls o f
candy, said Bruce D. Anderson,
director o f operations at the M ary
land Poison Center. Maryland has
reported 15 cases this year.
"Kids are very bright and will
find a way to get to som ething
that they want to get to," he said.
Dr. M ichael B uehler o f the
Carolinas Poison Center said Tide's
tougher lid could make a differ
ence.
"In a nutshell, yes, it w ould be
good, but I don't know enough,"
Buehler said. "It's too early to
tell."
The packets appear to cause
m ore severe sym ptom s than typi
cal detergent, possibly because a
single packet has a full cup's worth
o f detergent or because the pack
ets m ight activate more quickly
or differently.
In suburban Philadelphia, a 17-
m onth-old boy clim bed onto a
dresser and popped a detergent
package in his mouth. The boy
vom ited , b ecam e drow sy and
started coughing, said Dr. Fred
Henretig o f the Poison Control
Center at The Children's Hospital
o f Philadelphia. The boy was put
on a ventilator for a day and
hospitalized for a week.
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Doctors Apologize
for Nazi-era Crimes
(AP) — G erm any's m edical
association has adopted a decla
ration apologizing for sadistic ex
perim ents and other actions o f
doctors under the Nazis.
In the statem ent adopted ear
lier this week in Nurem berg, the
association said m any doctors
under the Nazis were "guilty, con
trary to their m ission to heal, o f
scores o f hum an rights violations
and we ask the forgiveness o f
their victims, living and deceased,
and o f their descendants."
In a d d itio n to p e rfo rm in g
pseudo-scientific experiments on
concentration cam p inmates, Ger
man doctors also were key to the
Nazi's program o f forced steriliza
tion or euthanasia o f the mentally ill
or others deem ed "unworthy o f
life."
The medical association says
"these crimes were not the actions
o f individual doctors but involved
leading members o f the medical
community" and should be taken
as a warning for the future.