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.
Thanks. That was a baby...which may not have been developed enough to associate taste and response, and appears to have been the only known death. Wholly irresponsible to leave that in the basket with the baby. Not really the same, but apparently it can be fatal - at least if a baby eats an entire one.