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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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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: 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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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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To: NautiNurse
If you think the government should step in to protect people from themselves.... bad things happen.

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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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To: NautiNurse

And here I always thought that putting a cap/scoop full of detergent in the wash was incredibly convenient.


22 posted on 11/19/2013 7:54:10 AM PST by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: NautiNurse

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.


34 posted on 11/19/2013 8:08:49 AM PST by upchuck (I can't stand people that don't know the difference between 'your' and 'you're.' Their so stupid...)
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To: NautiNurse
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...

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.

35 posted on 11/19/2013 8:09:47 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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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.


38 posted on 11/19/2013 8:13:46 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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72 posted on 11/19/2013 2:45:12 PM PST by windcliff
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