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Safety Experts Raise Concern Over Popular Laundry Packs
WSJ ^ | Nov 18, 2013 | Serena Ng

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]

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When adults choose to purchase a chemical product because it is pretty, bad things happen.
1 posted on 11/19/2013 7:25:36 AM PST by NautiNurse
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To: NautiNurse
When adults choose to purchase a chemical product because it is pretty, bad things happen.

They aren't purchased because they are pretty, it's because they are convenient and easy to use. If they have children then they need to keep the laundry detergent away from soap loving kids.

2 posted on 11/19/2013 7:29:55 AM PST by Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage (A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.)
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To: NautiNurse

When adults leave “pretty” chemicals laying around where their children can ingest them, and then leave the children unsupervised, bad things happen.

It’s hardly the fault of the manufacturer.


3 posted on 11/19/2013 7:30:46 AM PST by IronJack (=)
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To: NautiNurse

Pretty ?? Pretty easy, actually. No measuring, no pouring. Just throw a pack in with the wash.

Adults failing to keep chemicals out of the reach of children is NOT the problem of the manufacturer.


4 posted on 11/19/2013 7:32:07 AM PST by Salgak (http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com 100% all-natural snark !)
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To: IronJack

How toxic is a mouthful of nasty-tasting detergent?


5 posted on 11/19/2013 7:33:21 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Salgak

These packs are useful for older children to be able to start a load. The measuring part doesn’t usually go to well...


6 posted on 11/19/2013 7:35:21 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: NautiNurse

What ever happened to parents being RESPONSIBLE? Hello! The children being affected by this are very young children... Last I checked, it was advised that household chemicals be stored where small children cannot get to them.

It makes me wonder if these parents also leave open containers of bleach, rat poison, and ammonia just laying around for their children to play with.

Yes, I wonder why there seems to be a need to add those bright colors to the detergents in those “pods”... and it is to catch customer eyes. BUT - that does not remove all responsibility for parents to be PARENTS...


7 posted on 11/19/2013 7:36:00 AM PST by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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To: NautiNurse

“The Milan officials advised P&G to make the capsules’ packaging opaque and harder to open...”

Alternatively, someone might remind parents that what goes on in the home is THEIR RESPONSIBILITY.


8 posted on 11/19/2013 7:36:59 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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They aren't purchased because they are pretty

LOL--adults and children are attracted to bright shiny objects. If the pretty colors didn't sell the product, the manufacturers could save a lot of money by omitting the dyes.

Easy and convenient? As though a scoop is a time consuming and difficult task. Please. You aren't fooling anyone but yourself.

9 posted on 11/19/2013 7:37:03 AM PST by NautiNurse (Obama sends U.S. Marines to pick up his dog & basketballs. Benghazi? Nope.)
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To: lepton

Probably not too horrible if the child’s mouth can be rinsed out fairly soon (assuming the experience doesn’t send him to the faucet quickly to do just that himself). Some minor chemical burns and irritation from the sodium carbonate and enzymes. It’s unlikely to have lasting ill effects.

“Keep out of reach of children” is doubtless on these packages.


10 posted on 11/19/2013 7:40:51 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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11 posted on 11/19/2013 7:41:41 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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Florida baby dies after ingesting detergent
12 posted on 11/19/2013 7:42:28 AM PST by NautiNurse (Obama sends U.S. Marines to pick up his dog & basketballs. Benghazi? Nope.)
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To: NautiNurse

Depends on kind of washing machine too. Front loaders do will with detergents that are poured. For top loaders, a toss-in tablet will work fine. It’s less mess.


13 posted on 11/19/2013 7:42:38 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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If you think the government should step in to protect people from themselves.... bad things happen.

/johnny

14 posted on 11/19/2013 7:43:28 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: NautiNurse

There was a time when a liquid detergent was packaged in a container that looked like a milk container.


15 posted on 11/19/2013 7:44:25 AM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: NautiNurse
Leaving such stuff were children can get to it is more of a problem.

In the US, it's the automatic dishwasher detergent "packaged measures" that are the problem with being attractive for children, not to mention more convenient to be kept under the sink.

An advertising guy told me that when dishwasher detergents went to a thick liquid, manufacturers had problems with consumers managing to eject the stuff into their eyes. Eject as in dropping or placing the open jug down hard, and the container "burping" a blob straight up as they were leaning over it.

16 posted on 11/19/2013 7:46:18 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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Not saying it NEVER happens. I said unlikely. There are so many factors with small children. Might have been a delayed allergic reaction. And there’s always the mysterious SIDS. I had a weird allergy when young that never recurred when I was older. Kentucky mints supposedly made my chest break out in a rash, yet they never did so again and I kept wondering why my mom was so uptight about my eating them. It says in that article it is the first time such a lethal event was known to have happened in North America and these products have been around a while.

Tragic — we lament even one death — but sensible precautions to protect children don’t require dulling down an adult world.


17 posted on 11/19/2013 7:46:43 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Salgak
Adults failing to keep chemicals out of the reach of children is NOT the problem of the manufacturer.

Don't tell Bloomberg.

I bought a pack to take on vacation this summer. I thought they were great! Just throw one in the washer, no muss, no fuss.

And much cheaper than buyer detergent from the vending machine in the hotel laundry.

18 posted on 11/19/2013 7:49:57 AM PST by Night Hides Not (The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

When I travel, I use Purex laundry sheets - throw a sheet in the washer and the detergent is released, keep it with the load into the dryer, and the softener is released. And no one is tempted to eat it.


19 posted on 11/19/2013 7:50:55 AM PST by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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To: JRandomFreeper
If you think the government should step in to protect people from themselves.... bad things happen.

You have assumed incorrectly.

If adults would avoid purchasing potentially deadly products because they were pretty, the market would alter the product.

20 posted on 11/19/2013 7:51:52 AM PST by NautiNurse (Obama sends U.S. Marines to pick up his dog & basketballs. Benghazi? Nope.)
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