[Vision Thing]

“This may be the first case in North America of a death linked to the pods.”

So other deaths linked to pods have already taken place elsewhere?

I feel awful for the baby. Rest in peace, dear child.

[jiggyboy]

So other deaths linked to pods have already taken place elsewhere?

FWIW, logically you cannot draw that conclusion. Their statement is also true if they have no idea whatsoever about deaths in places other than North America.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— “This may be the first case in North America of a death linked to the pods.”

So other deaths linked to pods have already taken place elsewhere? -—

The question is, how does the number of pod-related poisonings compare to poisonings by other brands?

If it is much higher, I would expect Tide to redesign the product. Failing that, this would be a product liability case. There’s no need for the bureaucracy to step in, but they will, in order to justify their existence.

When I was a baby, I ate some floor wax...

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I think the author was careful not to say more than she knew. She said it may be the first such case in North America, and by limiting it to North America (meaning the U.S. and Canada, I presume) she may simply be indicating the limit of her research. It is a usefully qualitative rather then meaninglessly quantitative statement. I appreciate it when an author only says what she knows to be a fact.