CPSC Offers Tips To Prevent Poisonings
June 13, 2001
The Consumer Product Safety Commission encourages you to buy products with child-resistant packaging. The Commission also reminds you to store medicine and dangerous household chemicals in areas that children cannot access, preferably a locked cabinet or other safe compartment.
As part of National Poison Prevention Week, the Commission released some tips to keep your children safe. These tips include: keep the poison control center number next to your phone; leave products in their original containers with their original labels; read the directions before using a product; avoid taking medicine in front of children; throw away old, unnecessary medications; and keep lamp oil away from children because it is highly toxic if ingested.
Unintentional poisonings from common household products kill 30 children annually in the U.S.
-- Article Courtesy of InjuryBoard.com
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