However, they have helped cut child injuries and deaths by thousands. Some historians claim that the first example of a child resistant lid dates back to the fifth century BCE Mayans. An interlocking lid pot was found in Guatemala in by a team from the University of Texas. It is thought that the pot was used to keep thieving hands from obtaining the cacao inside which was used in religious ceremonies.
These secrets of the ancients were lost, however, and it was a Canadian paediatrician who developed the Palm-n-Turn lid in common use today.
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Can kids open medicine bottles? Parents even sometimes inadvertently overdosed children. Each company decided how much acetylsalicylic acid to put in a tablet. Joseph, for example, sold a 1. Parents needed to read each label carefully. This confusion worried the AAP, which publicized the problem.
As soon as the organization reported that 50 percent of accidents in children were poison-related, pediatricians, nurses, and public-health officials began tracking all accidental ingestions in children. In most instances, aspirin topped the list. If any action was needed at all, Plough executives argued, it was simply parental education.
Other companies in that market agreed. Just as the tobacco industry had begun doing with regard to health risks from cigarettes, aspirin manufacturers shaped the debates concerning aspirin poisoning using similar tactics. Any problems resulting from product use were the fault of the individual, not the product; in the case of aspirin, this meant poor parenting.
The FDA, AAP, and American Medical Association AMA leaders, accompanied by vocal supporters from the American Public Health Association, hoped to succeed on two major issues: a label warning parents to keep aspirin bottles away from young children and a standard, industry-wide dosage. The aspirin industry got its wish. Despite heavy pressure from the FDA, the only concrete conference result was a recommendation that industry voluntarily consider different packaging.
Industry tentatively agreed to an aspirin warning label, but no timeline was outlined, nor wording specified. Because aspirin was the most widely used, however, available in most homes, its candy formulations caused the most accidental ingestions.
According to AAP, the problem was not parents not reading directions; rather, youngsters aggressively hunted for the aspirin. As a result, significant parental diligence was necessary to prevent access by the determined toddler or preschooler. As numbers of aspirin-poisoned children continued to grow, one pediatrician, Jay M.
Arena, decided to act. Arena responded with an appeal, explaining that St. In the first advertisement for the safety cap—protected St. Joseph Aspirin for Children, in the December Parents , the company featured it prominently. However, mortality rates from aspirin poisoning continued to rise. The determined toddler or preschooler could overcome the barrier.
Fifty years later, packaging companies have developed innovative child-safe packaging that gives manufacturers better options to package their products and stay compliant with federal regulations.
Shortly after Dr. Although initially enforced by the FDA, the jurisdiction was transferred in to the U. Consumer Product Safety Commission. History of child-safe packaging through scholarly articles and internet blogs both show Dr. In the mids, a group of archaeologists from the University of Texas at San Antonio traveled to Guatemala to investigate the Rio Azul ruins.
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