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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Science@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

Kids Keep Eating Magnets, And Surgeons Say There's Only 1 Way to Stop It

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Kids Keep Eating Magnets, And Surgeons Say There's Only 1 Way to Stop It

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Science@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago
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Toy magnets pose a serious risk for young children, even when parents are supervising playtime.
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    You don’t have to give a bottle of bleach. The point is that most household chemicals have hardly any warnings on them at all and the ones they do have are written in tiny text on the back. And no, most household chemicals do not have locking bottles. Sure things like bleach do, but you purposefully chose one to try and fit your narrative. Turns out, bleach was the number one household chemical to injure children in 2006! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20679298/

    Weird.

    Just from the CPSC’s own data, they estimate 66,600 injuries a year just for children under five years old. https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/AnnualReportonPediatricPoisoningFatalitiesandInjuries_January2022.pdf

    Note that bleach is number five now, rather than number one, behind:

    1. Blood pressure medications
    2. Acetaminophen
    3. Antidepressants
    4. Dietary supplements

    https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2023/CPSC-Report-Finds-37-Percent-Spike-in-Child-Poisoning-Deaths-in-2021

    Let’s look at another report which states that ~50% of the magnet injuries come from products marketed to children, not these magnets made for adults. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6125079/

    Huh, weird that the CPSC makes no mention of this when they make quite a few claims about magnets in their announcement of a complete ban https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2022/CPSC-Approves-New-Federal-Safety-Standard-for-Magnets-to-Prevent-Deaths-and-Serious-Injuries-from-High-Powered-Magnet-Ingestion last year.

    It’s incredibly clear that the CPSC doesn’t actually care about the facts and someone in the magnet industry pissed them of else they’d be spending their time trying to fix the actual things that are killing children, like firearms.

    https://www.safekids.org/sites/default/files/documents/2022_skw_national_parent_survey.pdf

    https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsr1804754

    Just to end this post; the zen magnet warnings covered every inch of the packaging, you opened the box and there were more warning, you opened the bag in the box and there were even more warnings. There were permanent warnings in bright red text that couldn’t be removed from the box. This was more warning than any other product on the market and yet zen magnets have been completely banned, while bleach is still sold at your local grocery store with no ID necessary. Here’s a picture of one of the warnings, sorry I couldn’t find a video showing all the warnings, it’s been lost to time.

    https://kagi.com/proxy/feature_zenbox_vertical.jpg?c=iDtMQE7EvD9tzLrOrpJdGDL-gy185GEx1HCcnvAh4RFPQdxFEAT-yKxiRpHBnMESh0DOWKZglNHyDton6Z93QKBQdB0YgwOW9_H3c0LgH-NJs2hg0OOfR7BO9OIODjn3-nh073nkWk3DmoVr4QyBvw%3D%3D

    Anyway, the CPSC clearly doesn’t care about actual child deaths and injuries, as it didn’t do anything to even slow the rate of injuries or deaths and yet completely banned an entire industry just for pissing them off. I’ve posted all the proof straight from the CPSC above if you don’t believe that statement.

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